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- A Haitian gang leader threatened to "put a bullet in the heads" of kidnapped American missionaries.
- Authorities said the gang is seeking a $1 million ransom per person for each of the 17 missionaries.
- Members of the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries were kidnapped last weekend.
The leader of Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang threatened in a video to "put a bullet in the heads" of kidnapped American missionaries if a ransom payment isn't made, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.
"I swear by thunder that if I don't get what I'm asking for, I will put a bullet in the heads of these Americans," Wilson Joseph reportedly said in the video posted to social media.
Authorities said the gang is seeking a $1 million ransom per person for the release of 17 missionaries from the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries who were kidnapped last weekend by the gang.
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