Two Canadians victims in Kenya kidnapping: report

The Kenyan official, familiar with the case but not identified, confirmed the nationalities of the victims and said one of the Canadian passport holders was of Pakistani origin.

The two others kidnapped in the Friday attack were from Norway and the Philippines.

The incident also left a Kenyan aid worker dead, police official Philip Ndolo said in an earlier report.

The kidnappers are believed to be Somali militants who ambushed the two-car convoy the aid workers were driving through the Dadaab refugee camp, he said.

Ndolo also said that a security escort had originally been arranged to accompany a high-ranking delegation from the Norwegian Refugee Council, but that the aid group decided at the last minute to travel through the Dadaab refugee camp without an armed escort.

Council secretary general Elisabeth Rasmusson was present during Friday