Aid workers abducted from Kenyan refugee camp

Aid workers abducted from Kenyan refugee camp

Kenyan police say al-Shabab fighters have kidnapped two Spanish aid workers belonging to MSF from Dadaab refugee camp.

Aljzeera

Members of the Somalian rebel group al-Shabab have abducted two female Spanish aid workers from Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, a regional police official has said.

"Two aid workers of Spainish nationality have been kidnapped by the Shabab, they are working for MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres)," Leo Nyongesa, regional police chief, told the AFP news agency on Thursday.
Two Kenyan aid workers were also taken, according to the AP news agency.
The district commissioner of Dadaab told Al Jazeera that MSF staff usually travel without security escorts. He said military helicpoters had begun a search for the aid workers.

Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri, reporting from Nairobi, said the aid workers' Kenyan driver was shot in the neck, but was in a stable condition.
"The border area has been closed, and they are searching for the women using military helicopters. The problem is, this kidnapping happened quite a while ago and there are smuggler routes which the Somali do use and these two women could be in Somalia by now," she said.
"They Kenyan police believe that al-Shabab, the Islamist group, is responsible."
Currently the world's largest refugee camp, Dadaab hosts about 380,000 Somalis fleeing the severe drought that killed livestock and destroyed crops.
The recent kdinapping, along with the abduction three weeks ago of a Kenyan driver working for Care Kenya has raised questions about the safety of aid workers.
In recent weeks, an English woman and a French woman were also kidnapped in separate incidents near the border with Somalia.

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