Three teachers at Dadaab refugee camp kidnapped by suspected Al-Shabaab men

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three teachers have been kidnapped after Suspect Al-Shabaab fighters stormed a Kenyan school in Dadaab of northern Kenya, locals and officials said Thursday.

The male teachers who were identified as Isaac Mwangi, Alfred Mwangangi and Isaac Kaniu work for the Khalif Udha Academy in Hagadera refugee camp in Garissa County.

North Eastern regional coordinator Mohamud Saleh confirmed the abduction of the trio who is non-locals.

Three other teachers managed to escape the attack by hiding from their colleagues.

Saleh said police who visited the scene recovered two spent cartridges.

“No injury was reported during the said attack but we are investigating with an aim of establishing who these people were,” said Saleh.

Saleh said the Kenyan military was working with the Somali National Army to free the kidnapped Kenyan teachers, who are thought to have been taken across the border into Somalia.

The Hagadera refugee camp is part of the Dadaab refugee complex which houses over 300,000 Somali refugees and is said to be the biggest such camp in the world.

In October 2015, a teacher working for Windle Trust, Judy Mutua, was rescued at Shaba-Difu, 15km into Somalia, in a joint Somali and Kenyan security operation after she was kidnapped from Hagaderaby by masked armed men.