French hostage found dead in Kenya, cause unknown

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19-10-2011 | 07:46
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A disabled Frenchwoman kidnapped in Kenya and held by militants in neighbouring Somalia has died, the French foreign ministry announced on Wednesday. The 66-year-old was taken October 1 from her home on Kenya's northern coast.

The 66-year-old, wheelchair-bound Frenchwoman who was kidnapped from a northern Kenyan island earlier this month and held in Somalia has died, French officials announced Wednesday.

"The contacts with whom we were working to secure the release of Marie Dedieu have told us of her death," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said in a statement released Wednesday.

The statement did not provide details on when she died or the circumstances of her death. Dedieu was kidnapped on October 1 from a beach house she was renting in Manda, an idyllic Indian Ocean island off Kenya’s northern coast, near the Somali border and part of the Lamu Archipelago.  
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