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NAIROBI Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:54am EDT
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.N.'s refugee company (UNHCR) said upon Friday the item experienced halted non-critical surgical procedures with Kenya's Dadaab refugee camping since safety measures forces scoured that place for two Spanish aid trades-people kidnapped coming from right now there on a daily basis earlier.
Some help agencies have become progressively concerned by the worsening insecurity for the sprawling camping exactly where refugee volumes have bloated for you to over 460,000 this season while famine plus clash drive Somalis all around the border.
In spite of the increasing reliability fears, that brazen nature involving Thursday's wide-ranging daylight attack on two girls employed by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the cardiovascular system in the stay took pain relief workers by way of surprise.
"Today we will need to maintain most people (at) base. We take a thin staffing this has got down to the actual camps having a police patrol mainly because several companies can not often be suspended," stated Emmanuel Nyabera, spokesman to get UNHCR Kenya.
That meant presently there can be no combination of brand new arrivals, he said, however that mineral water distribution, pertaining to example, might continue.
It hasn't been very clear once the agency's employees will be competent to go back to normal operations, Nyabera said. For right now there was absolutely no blueprints regarding a good evacuation of foreign staff, he / she added.
Kenyan security forces fanned out over the semi-arid line area on Friday, hunting the actual abductors believed by means of Kenyan criminal court to be able to always be al Shabaab rebels. The al Qaeda-linked rebel movement has dissmissed off it was to blame for your attack.
Kenya's North Eastern Province police arrest commander Leo Nyongesa stated the actual hostages whereabouts stayed unknown.
"We have called elders within Somalia to assist us when using the search," they said.
The MSF workers' hijacked vehicle has been found ruin past due on Thursday concerning this Dadaab camping along with the border, that is situated in relation to 100 km (60 miles) away. There was absolutely no indicator of the gunmen or perhaps their hostages.
The advertising campaign number Human Rights Watch noted in '09 this al Shabaab has been recruiting fighters from within Dadaab.
A Kenyan driver working for this intercontinental reduction team Care holds missing after he / she seemed to be picked off within September from your Dadaab camp.
The Geneva-based UNHCR explained it's got 200 employees in Dadaab. A additional 100 humanitarian personnel operate alongside them, from assistance companies like MSF, that said.
(Editing through George Obulutsa )
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