At least 12 dead in Kenya cattle raid
Reuters - April 19, 2008
At least 12 people were killed in Kenya's arid north when police fought cattle rustlers believed to have crossed the border from Ethiopia, a police official said on Saturday.
"The raiders were pursued to recover the stolen livestock. Ten of them were killed," said the police official, who declined to be named.
"The number could rise because some of them were injured with gunshot wounds," he said.
He added that two herders had also been killed in the clashes a few hundred kilometers from the northern town of Marsabit.
Cattle rustling is common in pastoral communities living in the sparsely populated north and northeastern parts of Kenya, which has hostile terrain that is difficult for security personnel to patrol. Read More.