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Gunmen kidnap Italian volunteer in southeast Kenya

Chakama in Kenya’s Kilifi County where an Italian student volunteer was kidnapped and five people injured in an overnight attack on November 20, 2018. MAP | NMG

By  MOHAMED AHMED  &  Baya Samuel

An Italian student volunteer was kidnapped and five people injured when gunmen attacked a shopping centre in southeastern Kenya's Kilifi County on Tuesday evening.

The gunmen raided Chakama — about 80 kilometres west of Malindi town— and started shooting in the air, before taking away the 23-year-old Italian woman.

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