Nuns kidnapped at Kenya border
2008-11-10 13:10
Kismayu - Somali gunmen kidnapped two Western nuns on Monday and seized several vehicles on the remote Kenyan border, a senior local government official said.
Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for aid workers, who are often abducted or killed in attacks usually blamed on Islamist insurgents or feuding clan militia.
"Well-armed men kidnapped two white nuns," said Sheikh Hassan Hussein, chairman of El Wak in Somalia's Gedo Region.
"They also hijacked several cars. We do not know where they have gone. We don't know who exactly they were, but we can call them Somali bandits," he told Reuters by phone from the border.
He had no other immediate details and Kenyan security officials in the region could not be reached for comment.