NAIROBI (Halbeeg News) – Kenya Police officers have arrested 14 suspects in relation to the Tuesday night attack in Chakama Kilifi County where an Italian Aid Worker, Silvia Constanca Romano was abducted.
Ms Romano, 23, a manager of a non-governmental organisation known as African Milele Onlus, had been staying in a house in the village.
She had gone to pick a power bank when the gunmen attacked.
Police says they have critical information in relation to the kidnap and are pursuing other suspects who are believed to be holding the aid worker.
Coast regional Police Boss Noah Mwivanda says the suspects are being held by police to help with the investigation as some of them could have interacted with the kidnappers.
The police boss said they have recovered two motorcycles which were used by the attackers.
The detained people could have been in contact with the attackers, according to La Repubblica newspaper.
He said security agents extended the operation to Tana River and Taita Taveta counties.
According to Daily Nation, a local newspaper based in Nairobi, Kilifi County Commander Fredrick Ochieng’ rescued three people, who had travelled to Chakama, from lynching by a mob on claims of associating with the assailants.
Residents protested against increasing cases of insecurity when Deputy Governor Gideon Saburi, Magarini member of parliament, Michael Kingi and Adu Ward Representative Stanley Kenga toured the area.
The leaders’ efforts to calm the people were futile. They hurled stones at pastoralist members of the Somali and Oromo communities when alighted from a bus in Chakama and threatened to attack them with stones, clubs, and machetes.
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