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Four aid workers kidnapped, driver killed in Kenyan camp

Gunmen kidnapped four foreign aid workers and killed their driver on Friday in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp complex near the border with war-torn Somalia, police and officials said.

Children fetch water at the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya. Gunmen killed at least one person and kidnapped an aid worker in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, close to the border with war-torn Somalia, police sources and the Red Cross said Friday.

The four, who work with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), come from Canada, Norway, Pakistan and the Philippines, regional police official Philip Ndolo told AFP. Three others were wounded, NRC officials said.

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