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Toll from clashes in western Kenya hits 69

January 27, 2008 5:17 pm · Post your comment (No Comments)

[Why do these sort of things not happen in Japan or Western Europea after elections?-ed]

NAKURU, Kenya - Gangs armed with machetes and bows and arrows burned and hacked to death members of a rival tribe in western Kenya Sunday, as the death toll from the latest explosion of violence over disputed presidential elections rose to at least 69. Houses were blazing in the center of Naivasha, a tourist gateway.

Some 55 bodies were counted Sunday at the morgue in Nakuru, the provincial capital where ethnic clashes erupted Thursday night and continued until Saturday. Bodies were still arriving there Sunday, said a morgue attendant who spoke on condition of anonmyity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

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