Police in Kenya say unidentified gunmen kidnapped an Italian volunteer who was working fora non-governmental organisation (NGO) in a trading centre attack, while five people were wounded in the region of Kilifi on Tuesday.
“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 police said, the wounded were taken to hospital and officers are still on the hunt for the attackers.
The police have not revealed whether the suspects were militants from al-Shabaab, an Islamist group based in neighbouring Somalia, which has for a long time launched deadly attacks in Kenya.
One of the many attacks include the 2013 attack on a shopping mall in the capital, Nairobi, in which about 70 people lost their lives.
The suspected al-Shabaab militants have launched several attacks in recent months where Kenyan soldiers have been killed, however those attacks have all taken place in Lamu County, which is north of Kilifi and borders Somalia.
