Support staff kidnapped in Kenya

By the CNN Cord Staff

June 29, 2012 -- Up to date 1355 GMT (2155 HKT)

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• The assist staff are with the Norwegian Refugee Council
• Their driver, a Kenyan, was killed, police say
• The abductors escape with a refugee council vehicle
• Kenya has blamed earlier abductions at the militant Al-Shabaab group

Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- 5 assist employees -- 4 Europeans and a Kenyan -- have been abducted from Kenya's huge Dadaab refugee complicated close to the Somali border, police stated Friday.

Their Kenyan motive force was killed, mentioned Philip Ndolo of the Kenyan police.

The abductors were given away with a car of the Norwegian Refugee Council, an international humanitarian company. The vehicle's monitoring instrument indicated that it was nonetheless inside of Kenyan territory.

The help company stated most effective that a convoy "used to be eager about an incident" in Dadaab and that Secretary Normal Elisabeth Rasmusson and U . s . Director Hassan Khaire had been on the camp however neither was within the convoy.

"We at the moment are within the means of obtaining additional information approximately what has happened," the help company said.

Police have introduced a seek within the house. They wouldn't say whether or not the abductors had been from Al-Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked workforce that may be combating to impose Islamic legislation in Somalia and controls massive portions of the nation.

Kenya has blamed earlier abductions of holiday makers and help staff on Al-Shabaab.

In September, armed bandits broke right into a beachfront cottage the place Britons Judith and David Tebbutt, each of their 50s, had been staying. David Tebbutt was shot useless even as seeking to withstand the assault. His spouse was grabbed and lively away on a speedboat. She was launched months later in Somalia after her circle of relatives paid a ransom.

In October, pirates made any other cross-border raid, this time snatching a French girl in her 60s, who used a wheelchair and was believed to be in dangerous health, from a vacation house on Manda Island, the place she lived a part of the yr. She later died, most likely due to the kidnappers' refusal to provide her medicine, consistent with the French Overseas Ministry.

Also in October, gunmen kidnapped Spanish staff with the scientific charity Docs Without boundary lines from Dadaab, the world's greatest refugee camp, which properties just about 500,000 other folks approximately 50 miles west of the Somali border.

Journalist Lillian Leposo contributed to this report.

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