Kenyan police said on Sunday they had
launched a major manhunt for suspected bandits who killed four herdsmen in a
village in Marsabit County in northern Kenya.
Benjamin
Mwanthi, Marsabit Central divisional police commander, said the four were
killed on Saturday afternoon by gunmen as they took their animals to Jaica
watering point.
“We have
launched investigations into the incident that includes pursuit for the suspects
so that they can face the full force of the law,” said the local police
commander.
Mwanthi
said the incident which had shocked local residents happened near Jaica wells,
adding that the victims died on the spot and the attackers escaped soon after committing
the crime.
The
killings brought the number of casualties from banditry attacks involving use
of illicit guns in Marsabit County to 20 in the last week.
On
Saturday, Kenyan Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i said the government
had embarked on changing its national security doctrines to decisively address
the escalating conflict in the counties of Marsabit and Wajir.
Matiang’i
said the deployment of more police resources has begun.
Speaking
in Nairobi after receiving the security officers who were injured when a police
helicopter crashed at Kithoka area in Meru on Saturday morning, Matiang’i
pointed out that the protracted inter-clan violent conflict in the region is
increasingly becoming thorny and the government will turn to alternative means
to bring about sanity.
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