Cuban Doctors in Garissa and Mandera withdrawn as families of abducted seek answers

Cuban doctors who were abducted by suspected Al-shabaab militants. [File, Standard]

A day after two Cuban doctors were abducted in Mandera, their counterparts in Garissa and Wajir counties were withdrawn. 

Security was beefed up in Mandera as security personnel surveyed the area on foot and air, even as the locals dispatched elders to Somalia in a bid to negotiate for the release of the doctors, Landy Rodriquez and Assel Herrera Correa.