One Briton killed, second kidnapped in Kenya

Posted by AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE on September 11, 2011

LAMU, Kenya, Sept 11 – One British national has been killed and a second kidnapped in an attack at a beach resort near Lamu in Kenya, a spokesman for the Foreign Office in London said on Sunday.

“I can confirm that two British citizens were attacked at a beach resort north of Lamu near the Kenya, Somalia border,” the spokesman told AFP. “One was killed and another was kidnapped.”