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Embassy Employee's Wife Killed in Kenya Shooting

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A foreign national employed by the U.S. Embassy.

The wife of a foreign national employed by the U.S. Embassywas killed in the Kenya terrorist attack and several U.S. citizens were wounded, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed on Sunday. Kerry said the woman killed was the wife of a U.S. diplomat working for the U.S. Agency for International Development. There were several foreigners among the dead: France said two of its citizens were killed, along with two Canadians, and a Chinese woman. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, meanwhile, said his close family members were among the dead.

Read it at Reuters