THE fate of a US nurse and her daughter kidnapped in Haiti last week remains unknown as the United States State Department today refused to say whether the abductors made demands.

About 200 Haitians had marched in their nation’s capital on Monday to show their anger over an abduction that’s another example of the worsening gang violence that has overtaken much of Port-au-Prince.

Alix Dorsainvil, from the US state of New Hampshire, was working for El Roi Haiti, a nonprofit Christian ministry, when she and her daughter were seized last Thursday. 

Witnesses told reporters that Ms Dorsainvil was working in the small brick clinic when armed men burst in and seized her. 

Lormina Louima, a patient waiting for a check-up, said one man pulled out his gun and told her to relax.

“When I saw the gun, I was so scared,” Ms Louima said. 

Some members of the community said that the unidentified men asked for $1 million (£783,560) in ransom, a standard practice of the gangs killing and sowing terror in Haiti’s impoverished populace. 

Hundreds of kidnappings have occurred in the country this year alone, according to the local nonprofit Centre for Analysis and Research.

The same day that Ms Dorsainvil and her daughter were taken, the US State Department advised US citizens to avoid travel in Haiti and ordered non-emergency personnel to leave.

The violence has stirred anger among Haitians who say they simply want to live in peace.

Protesters, largely from the area around El Roi Haiti’s campus, which includes a medical clinic, a school and more, echoed that call as they walked through the sweltering streets wielding cardboard signs written in Creole in red paint.

“She is doing good work in the community, free her,” read one.

Earlier this month, Doctors Without Borders announced it was suspending services in one of its hospitals because some 20 armed men burst into an operating room and snatched a patient.