Kenyan Police Make Arrests in Connection With Kidnapping of Italian Charity Worker

By early Nov. 24, police had arrested 20 suspects in connection with the abduction of 23-year-old Silvia Romano, an Italian social worker in Kenya.

Villagers gather beside a police vehicle as they look at an area where a grenade exploded during an attack by a gang in the coastal Kilifi county, south-east Kenya, on Nov. 21, 2018, during which Silvia Romano, an Italian charity worker was abducted. Stringer/AFP/Getty Images

NAIROBI, Kenya—Officials have made several arrests in connection with the kidnapping of an Italian aid worker in Kenya’s coastal region. However, her fate and whereabouts remain unknown, Kenyan authorities said.

By early Nov. 24, police had arrested 20 suspects in connection with the abduction of Silvia Romano, 23, an Italian social worker from a village in Kilifi county along the Kenyan coast.