Heavily armed Somali gunmen stormed across the Kenyan border on Monday and kidnapped two Italian nuns from a remote town in northeastern Kenya, witnesses and local authorities said.

The attackers struck before dawn and then raced back across the border into lawless S

Somalia. Kidnapping has become a lucrative business in Somalia, and several Western aid workers are currently being held captive. But kidnappers rarely strike inside Kenya, and the Kenyan government said it was now sending more security forces to the border areas.

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