Author Mitch Albom evacuated from Haiti amid gang violence and unrest
American author Mitch Albom was evacuated from Haiti amid ongoing gang violence and unrest.
American author Mitch Albom was evacuated from Haiti amid ongoing gang violence and unrest.
Albom, 65, was visiting his orphanage Have Faith Haiti when he found himself stranded.
"The airports were closed, the ports were closed, the roads were closed and suddenly we had no way out," the "Tuesdays with Morrie" author said.
Albom was among a small group of people airlifted Tuesday out of the country's capital of Port-au-Prince, the center of the civil disorder. He is now back on American soil, he said in an Instagram post.
Mitch Albom on "TODAY" in 2022.Nathan Congleton / NBC file "A group of us from Have Faith Haiti, including my wife and myself, were evacuated overnight from Haiti, where we had been sheltering in place since a state of emergency was declared," he wrote.
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