Report: British and Kenyan citizens killed in attack on school

MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- Authorities are investigating reports that at least one British and two Kenyan citizens were killed in an attack on a school in central Somalia on Sunday night.

Assailants killed at least one British citizen, two Kenyans and a Somali in an attack about 11 p.m. Sunday on a school in Beledweyne, said Nur Musa Hussein, a journalist with Radio Shabelle, a Somali radio station. Hussein said he interviewed a guard at the school.

The attack on the school was part of a larger assault on the town by Islamic militants, who also burned the house of a regional official, he said.

The British High Command in Nairobi is investigating reports that one or two British citizens were killed, said Shelley Williams-Walker, a spokeswoman for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.

A representative of the Kenyan Foreign Ministry in Nairobi could not immediately be reached. E-mail to a friend

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