Five people wounded, including a 10-year-old shot in the eye and a 12-year-old hit in the thigh, are being treated in hospital on Wednesday after gunmen attacked and kidnapped an Italian volunteer in south-east Kenya.
Police said they shot five people in the first abduction of a foreigner since a series of raids blamed on Somali Islamist militants six years ago.
National Police Service says men armed with AK-47 rifles attacked the town of Chakama late on Tuesday and seized the 23-year-old woman who was working for the small Italian charity Africa Milele Onlus.
Meanwhile, Kenyan authorities have mounted a search and rescue operation for the gunmen.
There was no immediate comment from the Italian government.
Chakama in Kenya’s Kilifi region is 60 km inland from the bustling coastal tourist resort on Malindi.
