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Sunday November 25, 2018
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenyan police have identified three suspects in the kidnapping of an Italian woman and are offering a reward of one million shillings ($9,750) for information leading to their arrest.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the first kidnapping of a foreigner in the East African nation in several years. Police have said they are optimistic the aid worker will be found "within the shortest time possible."
Such attacks had become rare after 2011, when Kenya deployed forces to neighboring Somalia in a bid to stop the al-Shabab extremist group from kidnapping foreigners.
Police said the suspects in Tuesday's attack are Ibrahim Adan Omar, Yusuf Kuno Adan and Said Adan Abdi.
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This version corrects to say the kidnapping occurred on Tuesday.