Aid workers kidnapped from Kenya's Dadaab refugee campBy BBC | Friday, June 29 2012 at 14:47
Four foreign aid workers and one Kenyan national have been kidnapped from a refugee camp in Kenya close to the border with Somalia, police say.
According to the Associated Press news agency, a convoy of aid workers from the Norwegian Refugee Council was ambushed by gunmen in Dadaab camp.
Police sources told AFP agency that a driver was killed in the assault.
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