Britons, Kenyans killed in Somalia attack

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

MOGADISHU, April 14, 2008 (AFP) — Suspected Islamist insurgents dragged two British nationals and two Kenyans out of their home in a Somali town and killed them, witnesses said Monday.

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

A group of heavily armed gunmen attacked the home where the four teachers lived and dragged them out, Abdihakin Mohamoud Hassan, a cousin of the deceased headmaster told AFP.

The two Kenyans were shot dead in front of the school, the British woman was killed a little further away while the headmaster attempted to escape but was caught and shot...