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Gunfire heard in Kenyan town
Ethnic violence continued in Kenya's Nakuru town on Saturday where armed gangs manned roadblocks and clashes have killed at least 25 people in 24 hours, witnesses said.
- Agencies
- Published: 11:56 January 26, 2008
- Image Credit: Reuters
- A young man with an arrow in his head, dazed but somehow still conscious, arrives at a hospital following ethnic clashes in the town of Nakuru in the Rift Valley area on Saturday.
Nakuru: Ethnic violence continued in Kenya's Nakuru town on Saturday where armed gangs manned roadblocks and clashes have killed at least 25 people in 24 hours, witnesses said.
Media reports said that paramilitary police patrolled the provincial capital, where a dusk-to-dawn curfew is in place to contain violence.
"I have never experienced this in our country. This is bad," said a mourner outside the mortuary, where 16 burnt bodies were unloaded from a police truck.
At the main hospital, Dr Abdallah Ramadan said he had seen nine other bodies that had machete cuts. Nearly 100 wounded were admitted.
"[President Mwai] Kibaki supporters were blowing whistles to rally their people. I saw them kill someone," said Benson Waliaula, 36, a security guard at a bank in the centre of town.
"They tore his clothes off first then killed him with blows of a panga (machete). It took him some time to die. The police were just watching. There was nothing they could do."
Residents said many homes were torched and shops looted as large groups of youths armed with rocks, bows and arrows and homemade guns clashed.
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