BBC News with Marion Marshall

The Kenyan government says a French woman who was kidnapped overnight from a beach resort has now been taken to Somalia. They said her attackers escaped after a shootout when coast guard vessels and helicopters called up with the boat which was carrying her. Several abductors were injured in the exchange. The woman who is in her 60s and severely disabled was staying near the resort of Lame. France now warns tourists not to travel to the area. Kenya’s tourism minister Najib Balala told the BBC that the area was difficult to police.