STILL of volunteer Sylvia Constanza Romano, kidnapped in Kenya
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(21 Nov 2018) Around eight gunmen kidnapped an Italian volunteer along Kenya's coast and wounded several people, including three children, police said Wednesday. Kenya's police chief said five people were wounded by the attackers, who shot indiscriminately at around 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Chakama trading center in the county of Kilifi. The gunmen abducted Sylvia Constanza Romano, 23, an Italian woman working for Africa Milele Onlus, according to Boinnet and her organization. The motive for the attack isn't clear and the identity of the attackers is not yet known, he said. The gunmen came looking a white woman, said Ronald Kazungu Ngala, 19, who said he witnessed Romano's violent kidnapping. Ngala's high school education is being sponsored by Africa Milele Onlus and he had gone to the NGO's offices to present his grade 10 end of year report card to Romano, he said. He first heard gunfire which made all the shops close and people in the trading centre hide. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/72830710b22235b78fb2641f25558c6a
