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Update: 16:48, 29 June 2012 Friday

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Aid workers in Kenya camp abducted

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A Kenyan driver who was shot and wounded in the attack had died of his injuries while receiving treatment, Philip Ndolo, the region's deputy police chief.

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Kenyan police said the four foreign refugee workers kidnapped from a camp near the border with Somalia on Friday are nationals of Norway, Canada, Pakistan and the Philippines.

A Kenyan driver who was shot and wounded in the attack had died of his injuries while receiving treatment, Philip Ndolo, the region's deputy police chief.

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