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Al-Shabab demands Sh150m ransom for kidnapped Cubans

Cuban General practitioner Herera Corea and surgeon Landy Rodriguez in an undated picture. [File, Standard]

Suspected Al-Shabaab militants who are holding two Cuban doctors after their abduction in Mandera are now demanding Sh150 million in ransom.

The ransom demand was communicated through community elders who went to a remote area between the towns of Buale and El-Ade in Jubaland region of Somalia.

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