British tourists attacked in Kenya + Related News

Laaska News  Sept. 11,2011
One Briton killed, another kidnapped in Kenya’s Lamu
British tourists attacked in Kenya

The British Foreign Office has confirmed the fact of two British tourists having been attacked on the grounds of an exclusive health resort in Kenya near the Somali border.

One tourist is dead, the other is kidnapped.  Kenyan police told the BBC that the attack can have been organized by members of the Somali al-Shabab radical Islamist movement.
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One Briton killed, another kidnapped in Kenya’s Lamu

LAMU, Kenya, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) — Suspected armed Somali militiamen shot and killed a British tourist then kidnapped his wife in an incident which took place in a beach resort in Kenya’s coastal town of Lamu on Saturday night, Kenyan authority confirmed Sunday.

Authorities said on Sunday that the gang believed to be from Somalia’s militant group, al Shabaab is said to have raided the Kiiwayu Safari village in Lamu County at night and shot the Briton on the head, killing him instantly.

Police sources said the couple arrived at the hotel in the evening only to be attacked by the Somali gang, an incident that has raised concern over the security of tourists in the area which is beginning to attract investors.

Lamu District Commissioner Steve Ikua confirmed the murder and the kidnap, saying the killers were from the neighboring Somali who were armed with firearms and crossed through the Indian Ocean.

Ikua said preliminary investigations indicated that the suspects could have colluded with some locals to conduct the robbery.

“One tourist of British origin was shot last (Saturday) night, his wife kidnapped by a gang from the neighboring Somali, they escaped to an unknown destination but officers are on the ground (and) are pursuing them,” he said.

The administrator said a combined security force were on the ground to rescue the British tourist who has not been found so far.

Unconfirmed reports indicted the senior British officials flew to the area immediately they got the news of the murder and also dispatched their security personnel to help in the rescue mission.

Efforts to get a comment from the police over the matter went futile.

Xinhua.
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