Kenya hit areas 'not accessible'
2008-01-04 09:17
Nairobi - The International Committee for Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday that aid workers still lacked access to some of the affected areas in Kenya, where deadly political strife had raged.
Pascal Cuttat, the ICRC's head of delegation in Nairobi, said: "Several hundred people at least have been killed and thousands have been injured.
"There is also a concern about the lack of access for humanitarian workers to many affected areas. For this reason, we are unable to give exact figures for the numbers of dead and injured."
"There are many people touched by the clashes that no organisation has been able to reach," Cuttat said, explaining that the agency was assisting Kenya Red Cross Society in dealing with the crisis.
Deadly violence had flared in Kenya since the country's electoral board declared President Mwai Kibaki winner of December 27 elections on Sunday.
Opposition chief Raila Odinga had rejected the result, citing widespread rigging during the tallying process. The feuding sides were still at odds over resolving Kenya's worst political crisis since a 1982 failed coup.
Countrywide rioting and tribal tit-for-tat killings had claimed at least 351 people in violence that erupted in the wake of the elections, according to police, mortuary attendants and aid workers.
Kibaki had announced that the army would assist in the distribution of relief supplies across the country.