OTTAWA, May 23 (UPI) -- Progress was reported Friday in negotiations for the release of a Canadian medical aid worker kidnapped in Haiti two days earlier.
A U.N. police spokesman told CTV News Haitian and U.N. police along with unspecified Canadian diplomatic officials were negotiating with the kidnappers of Nadia Lefebvre and there was only a ransom issue and not a political issue.
"The last I heard from investigators, she is safe and sound and it's just a matter of time before she is released," spokesman Fred Blaise told the broadcaster.
The 32-year-old Montreal native was working as a non-medical volunteer for Doctors of the World when she was abducted early Wednesday after five men broke into her home in Port-au-Prince.
Since the beginning of the year, there have been 139 kidnappings in the Haitian capital, the report said.
