Eight people including an Irish missionary and a 3-year-old child remained missing Monday after gunmen stormed an orphanage in Haiti, the latest attack in an area controlled by a powerful collection of armed gangs.

The kidnapping was confirmed by Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, NPH International, in a statement on its website and its Haiti affiliate. NPH was founded by Father William Wasson, a Catholic priest, to serve vulnerable children.

The family of an Irish woman kidnapped from an orphanage in Haiti have said they are "absolutely devastated" and described the chain of events as "deeply worrying". Gena Heraty, the facility's director,