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07:58, July 09, 2007 |
At least 17 people were killed and dozens injured on Saturday in brutal attacks when raiders attacked a remote Kenyan district of Samburu, about 250 km northeast of Nairobi.
Area police boss Everest Wasige confirmed the attacks but could not disclose the number of casualties which the local media put the death toll at 17 for the dawn attack which also saw at least 1,000 head of cattle and 300 goats stolen.
"The attacks occurred at a village in Suguta Marmar in Samburu and it involved two tribes from Pokot and Samburu," Wasige said by telephone on Sunday.
"We haven't established the number of casualties and the move behind the attack," he added.
The area police boss said the raiders, who were armed with AK-47 rifles and M16 guns, fired as they drove away the livestock.
The attack comes barely two weeks after suspected raiders killed people and stole animals in the neighboring Baringo district.
The attacks in the two districts have displaced thousands of people, leaving them without food, shelter and medical care. A number of schools have been shut down over a perennial conflict that has claimed several lives in the recent past.
Hundreds of Kenyans have been killed in inter-clan clashes between different ethnic communities over lack of natural resources in the recent past.
Source: Xinhua
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