NAIROBI (Halbeeg News) – Unidentified gunmen have reportedly abducted two Cuban doctor in Mnadera town near Kenya’s border with Somalia.
The attack which took place this morning targeted a vehicle carrying the doctors and their escorts which was heading to Mandera General Hospital.
According to witnesses, the armed assailants in two small cars first blocked the vehicle ferrying the medics to work.
The gunmen killed a police officer guarding the doctors after they opened fire on the car ferrying the doctors.
“They hijacked these Cuban doctors. They are suspected to have crossed into Somalia, so a security operation is still going on,” said David Ohito, the Mandera County government’s communications director. “It happened right in the middle of the town.”
The kidnapped doctors Landy Rodriguez (a surgeon) and Herera Correa (general practitioner) had settled in well at the Mandera Referral Hospital where they had been working in the past year.
The other officer managed to escape in the attack that happened right in the middle of the northern-Kenya town that lies near the Somalia border.
Security sources say they crossed over to Somalia with their captives.
The abducted doctors are among 100 Cuban specialists that Kenyan imported from Havana in June 2018 in a bid to improve service delivery in rural areas.
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