"100 feared dead in Kenya fuel pipeline blast; Giant fireball engulfed slum; at least 110 hurt" September 13, 2011|By Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times
NAIROBI - It has been a difficult week for the Kenyan police. On Sunday, a boatload of Somali gunmen snatched a British tourist from a fancy $1,300-a-night resort just south of the Somali border. The gunmen killed the woman’s husband before racing away with her, prompting Kenyan police to deploy search planes, helicopters, and small boats to scour the area.
But yesterday there was no word on where the woman might be, and most officials suspected she had been taken deep into Somalia, kidnapped either by Al-Shabab, an Islamist militant group, or by gangsters looking for ransom.
While that case was a bit of an aberration, residents of the Sinai slum, where the fire broke out, said fuel spills happened all the time....
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