{"id":23128,"date":"2018-11-25T04:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T04:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23128"},"modified":"2018-11-25T04:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T04:22:21","slug":"kenya-identifies-suspects-in-silvia-costanza-romanos-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23128","title":{"rendered":"Kenya identifies suspects in Silvia Costanza Romano&#8217;s kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"91.2671552298\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Kenyan police have identified three suspects in the kidnapping of an Italian woman and are offering a reward of one million shillings ($9,750) for information leading to their arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Silvia Costanza Romano, 23, was seized by six armed men on Wednesday from Kilifi, a coastal community. Five people were injured by the gunmen, including children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>There has been no claim of responsibility for the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/11\/kenya-gunmen-kidnap-italian-woman-wound-coast-181121062552098.html\">kidnapping<\/a>, the first involving<span>\u00a0a foreigner in\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/kenya.html\">Kenya<\/a><span>\u00a0in several years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Police have said they are optimistic the aid worker will be found &#8220;within the shortest time possible&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Romano is a volunteer with Africs Milele Onlus, an NGO operating in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya&#8217;s National Police Service posted on its official Twitter page the images of the three suspects, who were identified as\u00a0<span>Ibrahim Adan Omar, Yusuf Kuno Adan and Said Adan Abdi.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"3.50694444444\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wanted: <\/p>\n<p>Armed and dangerous. <\/p>\n<p>Ksh 1M reward. 2\/2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ffGDMeWAhU\">pic.twitter.com\/ffGDMeWAhU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 National Police Service-Kenya (@NPSOfficial_KE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NPSOfficial_KE\/status\/1066270264097480704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a statement, Inspector General Joseph K Boinnet said that two motorcycles &#8220;suspected to have been used as the gateway conveyance&#8221; were found by police officers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meanwhile, the multi-agency team assembled to rescue the lady are doing all they can to rescue her and arrest the abductors, to answer for their crimes in accordance with the law,&#8221; Boinnet said.<\/p>\n<p>Such attacks had become rare after 2011, when Kenya deployed forces to neighbouring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/somalia.html\">Somalia<\/a> in a bid to stop the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/al-shabab.html\">al-Shabab<\/a> armed group from kidnapping foreigners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan police have identified three suspects in the kidnapping of an Italian woman and are offering a reward of one million shillings ($9,750) for information leading to their arrest. Silvia Costanza Romano, 23, was seized by six armed men on Wednesday from Kilifi, a coastal community. 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