Gunmen killed a British man and kidnapped his wife on Sunday in a raid on a beach resort in northern Kenya near Somalia, Kenyan police and Britain's Foreign Office said. "We believe it is a kidnap but we are yet to receive any communication from the alleged kidnappers, over 11 hours after they took her with them," the director of Kenya's Criminal Investigation Department, Ndegwa Muhoro, told Reuters.
"We are yet to receive any communication from the armed militia and where they may be holding the British woman," he said by phone from Rwanda, where he was on official duty.
He said anti-terrorism and special crimes teams were on the ground, but no arrests had yet been made.
Abu Chiaba, a member of parliament for Lamu East and assistant fisheries minister, told Reuters several armed men attacked the Kiwayu Safari Village north of Lamu in the Kiunga Marine National Reserve just before dawn on Sunday.