Britons, Kenyans among four killed in Somalia attack

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

MOGADISHU (AFP) — Two British nationals and two Kenyans, all of them employed at an English school in a Somali town, were killed in an overnight raid by suspected Islamist insurgents, witnesses said Monday.

According to witnesses and relatives in the town of Beledweyn, the four victims were a British-Somali female teacher, another dual national who was the school's headmaster and two Kenyan teachers.

"The British female teacher and the two Kenyans, who were also teachers, were killed last night here in Beledweyn," Abdihakin Mohamoud Hassan, a cousin of the deceased headmaster told AFP.

He told AFP that a group of heavily armed gunmen attacked the home where the four teachers lived and dragged them out.

The two Kenyans were shot dead in front of the...