PRAGUE — An official says two European aid workers kidnapped in Haiti and later released were from the Czech Republic and Belgium.

Lucia Duricova of the Czech office of Doctors Without Borders confirmed the nationalities Friday. She said the two women are fine but declined to give any further details.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Doctors Without Borders says kidnappers have released two European aid workers snatched off the streets of Port-au-Prince and held for five days.

It is the first reported kidnapping since Haiti suffered a magnitude-7 earthquake with catastrophic damage on Jan. 12. More than 5,000 prisoners fled jails that collapsed or were damaged in the temblor. About 200 have been captured.

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By Joel Rubin/ joel.rubin@latimes.com
Emergency medical workers are becoming the de facto healthcare system for a country that has long failed to care for its own. Soon, a ragged health network could be left largely on its own again.

Dr. Fred Martin of Chicago’s Cook County Hospital treats Anderson Dierdonn, who was injured in an accident unrelated to the quake. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - The line of patients at this city’s battered General Hospital forms early. The sick come to be seen by “the good doctors.”

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