KENYA: Doctors at a hospital treats injured after tribal violence

Record ID: 362454

  • Title: KENYA: Doctors at a hospital treats injured after tribal violence
  • Date: 21st December 2012
  • Summary: MALINDI, KENYA (DECEMBER 21, 2012) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF MALINDI GENERAL HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF INJURED PATIENTS AT THE HOSPITAL DOCTORS ATTENDING TO INJURED IN HOSPITAL INJURED ON A HOSPITAL BED MORE OF INJURED IN HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF DOCTORS ATTENDING TO THE INJURED INJURED BEING LOADED ONTO AN AMBULANCE
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  • Location: Kenya
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: Health
  • Reuters ID: LVAHUDQHPAAY5UXV71KCDGB4NA9
  • Story Text: Thirty-nine people, including several children, were killed in tribal violence in Kenya's coastal Tana Delta region on Friday (December 21), police and Red Cross officials said, heightening security concerns ahead of next year's presidential election.
    Tribal fighting on the northern coast and deadly riots in the port city of Mombasa have raised fears that the March 2013 election in east Africa's biggest economy will be marred again by violence and electoral abuses.
    Police said Friday's raid on a village appeared to have been a revenge attack after clashes in August between farmers from the Pokomo tribe and semi-nomadic Orma tribesmen, who have fought for years over access to grazing, farmland and water in the coastal region. They said six women and 13 children were among the dead and nine of the attackers were killed.
    More than 100 people were killed in a series of attacks in the area in August and September.
    Some of those injured were taken to Malindi General hospital where doctors were busy treating them.
    According to those injured, the raiders used firearms, spears, machetes and arrows.
    Kenya Red Cross, which has a team on the ground treating the wounded, put the death toll at 30, including several children, with about 45 houses set on fire.
    Tourist numbers on the coast have tumbled over fears of a repeat of the ethnic violence that rocked Kenya after the disputed 2007 election.
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