CARE International driver was kidnapped a week ago
NAIROBI (AlertNet) – Somali elders are helping to search for a Kenyan driver with CARE International who was snatched from the world’s largest refugee camp, Dadaab, last week, the Daily Nation newspaper reported on Monday.
“The CARE Kenya vehicle was taken into Somalia and since there is no effective government there to help us trace him, we have involved border peace committees to rescue him,” a local police officer, Leo Nyongesa, told the paper.
Nyongesa said the attack was “normal banditry”. Questions have been raised as to whether the militant Somali rebel group, al Shabaab, was involved in the attack.
The driver was kidnapped was last Monday while dropping off colleagues to repair a water pump in the Hagadera section of the camp.
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