NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Two international aid workers were kidnapped in Kenya Thursday by gunmen believed to be from the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab, a police spokesman said.
Spokesman Erick Kiraithe said the two women from Doctors Without Borders were kidnapped about 1 p.m. local time from a refugee camp in Dadaab near the Kenya-Somalia border, Capital FM News, Nairobi, reported.
Kiraithe said a "massive manhunt," with aid from a helicopter, was under way to try to locate the women but heavy rains impeded the search.
The women were abducted while riding through the camp in a vehicle whose driver was shot and wounded before being thrown from the vehicle, Capital News said. A police source in Dadaab said the vehicle was seen speeding toward the Somalia border, where the women may have been taken.
Somali militants kidnapped a Briton and a French woman from Lamu, Kenya, last month, Capital News said.
Hundreds of thousands of Somalis who have fled conflict and famine in their country have taken refuge in the Dadaab camp in the desert.
