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Three foreign aid workers kidnapped in Kenya, taken to Somalia
Jul 18, 2009, 10:50 GMT
Nairobi - Three foreign aid workers were abducted by armed men in north-east Kenya on Saturday and taken into Somalia, reports said.
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, three members of the Action Against Hunger humanitarian organization were captured in the Kenyan town of Mandera, which is near the borders of Somalia and Ethiopia.
The three victims were said to be nationals from Pakistan, Zimbabwe and an unidentified European country.
The Kenyan-Somalia border has recently seen several incidents of this kind. At the beginning of the year two Italian nuns were kidnapped and released two months later. Kidnapping in the area is thought mainly to be occupation of bandits seeking ransoms.
Currently in a state of anarchy and civil war, Somalia has not had a strong central government in nearly two decades.
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