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

Gena Heraty was among those taken from the privately-run Sainte-Hélène orphanage in Kenscoff during the early hours of Sunday morning 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".

Irish missionary Gena Heraty, who oversees an orphanage in Haiti, has been kidnaped alongside seven workers and a three-year-old child