Al-Shabaab Suspected In Kidnapping Of Cuban Doctors
April 12 2019
A police officer has been killed and two Cuban doctors have been kidnapped in northeastern Kenya, reports the Daily Nation (Nairobi).
The men were ambushed on Friday as they traveled to a hospital in Mandera, said police.
The attackers used two cars to block the road and then shot and killed one of the two police officers who were escorting the doctors.
The attackers then took the men across the border into Somalia, police said.
The driver of the van transporting the doctors was...
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