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Gunmen kidnap Italian volunteer, shoot children in Kilifi

Sylivia Constanca, the Italian woman who was kidnapped in Kilifi.

Gunmen kidnapped an Italian volunteer in southeast Kenya and shot five people late on Tuesday, police said, in the first abduction of a foreigner since a series of raids blamed on Somali Islamist militants six years ago.

Men armed with AK-47 rifles attacked the town of Chakama and seized the 23-year-old woman who was working for the small Italian charity Africa Milele Onlus, the National Police Service added.

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