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| Africa: Subsaharan |
| Inter-clan feud death toll now 82 |
| 2005-07-16 |
| KENYAN security forces recovered five bodies of people believed to be the bandits who attacked a village in northern Kenya this week, bringing the death toll to 82 as search for the assailants intensified, police said today. "Following intensive patrols by our security, five more bodies believed to be of bandits were discovered late yesterday (Thursday) at Pangale hills (northern Kenya), where our security men had a contact with the attackers on Wednesday," police spokesman Jasper Ombati said in Nairobi. "This brings the total number of bandits killed to 15," he added. Ombati spoke as a combined team of Kenyan security forces mounted a massive ground and aerial operation in northern Kenya to hunt for killers from the Borana clan who on Tuesday raided a Gabra village in Turbi, about 580 kilometres northeast of Nairobi, killing at least 56 people including 22 children. In fighting that ensued on Tuesday, 10 of the assailants were killed, while a revenge attack by a group of Gabras resulted in the death of nine Boranas, including four children. Two more Boranas were killed yesterday as the revenge attacks escalated, police said. The two clans have been locked in long-drawn wrangles over access to water and pasture in the dust-bowl region. |
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