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Scores held as long search for Italian hots up

Ms Sylivia Constance, the italian aid worker who was kidnapped in Malindi.

An MCA and a senior Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officer are among suspects arrested as the search for kidnapped Italian aid worker Silvia Constanza Romano intensifies.

About 22 others, including the wife of suspected kidnapper, are also in custody as the intelligence sources allege the abduction was plotted in Witu in Lamu and that Syllvia has been shaved and draped in a hijab by her abductors to conceal her identity. 

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