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Gunmen have shot dead a police officer guarding two Cuban doctors in a road ambush in Mandera town, northern Kenya.
In the daring attack staged a few minutes after 9am (0600GMT), the armed assailants in two small cars first blocked the vehicle ferrying the medics to work.
According to witnesses, they then alighted and opened fire on the police officer, killing him instantly.
Another officer managed to escape in the attack that happened right in the middle of the town.
They then bundled the two health workers into their car and drove off.
The fate of the foreign doctors from Havana was not immediately clear as security officials are yet to issue a statement.
Security sources told the Nation that Kenya Defence Forces had been dispatched to chase after the two vehicles used in the raid and suspected abduction
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