''KIDNAPPED AID WORKERS FROM KENYA CAMP RELEASED"

By Abel Abel Inis
Africa Correspondent, SAM Daily Times

Four aid workers seized from a refugee camp near Kenya's Somali border have been released and are safe after an operation by Kenyan and Somali forces. The Norwegian Refugee Council(NRC) said it was 'relieved' its staff were free. It also paid tribute to a Kenyan driver killed in last week's ambush. Gunmen in Dadaab attacked the convoy of foreigners from Canada, Norway, Pakistan and The Philippines on friday. Many aid groups have left the camp after a recent rise in abductions. The NRC has named the free workers as Steven Dennis, Astrid Sehl, Glenn Costes and Qurat-ul-Ain Sadazai. The foreigners had been travelling in a convoy when they were ambushed in Dadaab, which houses more than 450,000 Somalis. Somali and Kenyan forces launched a joint rescue operation after receiving intelligence about the hostages' whereabouts. Gunmen last October seized two Spaniards working for Medicins Sans Frontiers(Doctors without borders). They are still being held hostage in Somalia.