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    October 13, 2011

Aid Workers Kidnapped Near Kenya-Somalia Border

   VOA News

   Gunmen have kidnapped two European aid workers from a huge Somali
   refugee complex in northern Kenya.
   Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says two of its staff, both
   Spanish, were abducted Thursday at the Dadaab refugee complex.
   An official for the group says the pair was seized at gunpoint from
   Dadaab's recently-opened Ifo 3 camp. He says a driver was wounded
   during the abduction and is in stable condition.
   Kenyan authorities suspect the kidnappers may be Somali and may have
   tried to take the workers back to Somali territory. Dadaab is located
   about 100 kilometers from the Somali border.
   This would be the third kidnapping of foreigners near the Kenya-Somali
   border within the past month.
   A British tourist and a French woman were recently abducted at Kenyan
   resorts. Both are being held captive in Somalia.
   The Dadaab complex is home to more than 400,000 refugees, many of whom
   fled ongoing famine conditions and fighting in southern Somalia.

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