Two aid workers kidnapped from Kenyan refugee camp

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Source: The Guardian

Gunmen have kidnapped two female Spanish aid workers and shot their driver in a refugee camp in northern Kenya in the latest attack on foreigners close to the Somali border.

The women work for Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), which runs health centres for the more than 400,000 Somali refugees in the sprawling Dadaab refugee settlement, the world's largest.

The kidnappers struck at about 1.15pm in Ifo camp, wounding the Kenyan driver before escaping in the MSF four-wheel drive with the two women. The vehicle was seen heading in the direction of Somalia, 50 miles away.

Kenyan police said they had launched a manhunt and sealed the border to prevent the kidnappers crossing. The border is in fact porous and impossible to close off.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/13/aid-workers-kidnapped-kenyan-camp

[cbayer]

1. This is very, very bad news.

[David Sky]

2. I so hate to hear stories like this. MSF is such a great organization, too! n/t

[Blue_Tires]

3. this is getting widespread

it's looking like no one is safe there