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Kenya police arrest 61 suspects over tribal attack
[Pak Daily Times] Kenyan police said Sunday they have locked awayInto the paddy wagon wit' yez! 61 suspects over a brutal attack on a remote village in the southeast involving two rival communities that left 45 people dead including women and kiddies. Villagers were hacked to death and their homes torched in Friday's attack on Kipao village in the Tana River delta region, an area where deadly tribal violence killed another 100 people earlier this year. Police said on Saturday they had arrested 56 people, including a policeman, in the wake of the onslaught, which they feared could further inflame tensions between the rival Orma and Pokomo communities in the area. Another five were arrested in a late-night "security operation," a police officer said on condition of anonymity on Sunday. Police attributed the killings to a disarmament operation in the area but the violence could also be linked to the election being held next March, the first since Kenya was gripped by deadly inter-ethnic killings after a December 2007 vote. Police said the dead in Kipao included 16 children, five women and 10 men, along with 14 assailants. Posted by: Fred 2012-12-24 |
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