Tribal fighting leaves 9 dead
2005-01-10 13:28
Nairobi - At least nine people were killed and nearly a dozen wounded over the weekend in renewed inter-clan clashes in Kenyan villages near the Ethiopian and Somali border town of Mandera in the northeast, police said on Monday.
"Nine people were killed and up to 12 others wounded on Sunday morning," national police spokesperson Jaspher Ombati told reporters in Nairobi.
The weekend attack was a revenge to last week's killing of at least nine people by a rival Somali clan in the same region, he explained.
"This was definitely a revenge attack," he said.
Inter-clan clashes in the region are part of a longstanding feud between clans in Kenya and Somalia.
Police officers have been deployed in the region to forestall further attacks, Ombati said.