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Italian Volunteer Kidnapped in Kenyan Coastal Raid, Police Say

Italian Volunteer Kidnapped in Kenyan Coastal Raid, Police Say

(Bloomberg) -- An Italian volunteer was kidnapped and five people wounded when armed men raided a small town near Kenya’s coast, police said, in the first abduction of a foreigner in the area for years.

Italian Volunteer Kidnapped in Kenyan Coastal Raid, Police Say

The attack occurred about 8 p.m. Tuesday in the community west of the coastal resort of Malindi, Kenya’s police service said on Twitter. The Italian volunteered with the non-governmental organization Africa Milele Onlus, while five people between 10 and 23 years of age were injured, it said.

The Standard, a Nairobi-based newspaper, said the attack was on a children’s home in Kilifi county. Calls to the phone number on the NGO’s website didn’t connect. Police said they haven’t yet identified the assailants or established their motives.

To contact the reporter on this story: Bella Genga in Nairobi at bgenga2@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Paul Richardson at pmrichardson@bloomberg.net, Michael Gunn, Pauline Bax

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