Kenyan police have confirmed the abduction of an Italian volunteer by unknown gunmen in the coastal region of Kilifi during an attack in which five people were wounded.
“The gang abducted an Italian lady aged 23 years who is a volunteer of Africa Milele Onlus, an NGO operating in the area,” the National Police Service said on Twitter.
The men, armed with AK-47 rifles, attacked the town of Chakama on Tuesday evening, police said. The town is west of Malindi, a major tourism destination on the coast.
The injured persons, all under the age of 25, have been taken to the hospital as police go after the attackers.
It is not certain if the gunmen were suspected militants from al Shabaab, an Islamist group based in neighbouring Somalia that has launched deadly attacks in Kenya for years.
The town of Chakama in Kilifi County where the attack occurred is nearly 300 km (185 miles) southwest of the Kenya-Somalia border.
In 2013, al Shabaab attacked a shopping mall in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, killing nearly 70 people.
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