Gunmen Kidnap Italian Woman in Southeast Kenya
An armed gang abducted an Italian volunteer from a village in southeast Kenya, shooting and wounding five residents in the raid, police said Wednesday (Nov 21).
"The attackers fired indiscriminately at residents" before kidnapping the 23-year-old charity worker during the attack after dark on Tuesday evening at Chakama, a small village in the coastal Kilifi county, police said in a statement.
Three children were among those injured, with one, a 10-year-old boy, shot in the eye, according to police.
"Neither the reasons for the attack nor the identity of the attackers have been established," police said.
The wounded have been taken to hospital and police "deployed to track down the criminals".
The village is about 60 kilometres inland from the coastal town of Malindi, which is popular with Italian tourists and expatriates.
Police warned against speculation, rife in the local Kenyan press, that Shabaab militants from Somalia might be behind the abduction.
Police chief Joseph Boinnet said he did not yet know who the attackers were. "We are investigating, but people should stop speculating," he told reporters.
Another police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity about the ongoing investigation, said "we understand that there has been a dispute at that orphanage and that is what we are looking at."
Kidnappings of foreigners are rare in Kenya, but have a damaging effect on the country's crucial tourist economy.
A spate of abductions on the coast in 2011 saw a British man shot dead and his wife kidnapped from a resort island, while weeks later a French woman was abducted from her home on the Lamu archipelago.
Soon afterwards jihadist gunmen from the Shabaab militant group abducted two Spanish aid workers from the Dadaab refugee camp close to the Somali border.
Source: channelnewsasia
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