Kenya: Kidnapped Aid Workers Rescued

Publisher:
KENYA Citizen TV
Publication Date:
2 July 2012
Tags:
Kenya, Somalia, Aid and Assistance, Legal and Judicial Affairs

Four foreign aid workers kidnapped from the IFO refugee camp in Daadab close to the Somalia border were on Monday flown to Nairobi after being rescued from their abductors. According to military officials, the four were freed in an overnight joint rescue operation at diff town about 50 Kilometres from the Kenyan border. The workers, from Canada, Norway, Pakistan and the Philippines, work for the Norwegian refugee council. A Kenyan driver was killed during the attack last Friday.

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