Kenya: Dozens Killed in Fighting Tied to Cattle Raid

May 6, 2015 | New York Times
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Fifty-four people have been killed in Kenya’s north in fighting that the police say was started by a cattle raid, the Kenya Red Cross said Wednesday. Five others were critically wounded in the attacks in Turkana County, and 350 people have been displaced from their homes by the violence, the agency said. The police said the attacks began Monday when armed raiders believed to be Pokots attacked a Turkana village and stole animals, killing seven people. Turkana gunmen retaliated that night. Livestock-keeping nomads in Kenya’s north routinely engage in cattle raids, which experts say have become more deadly because the nomads have switched from using spears and arrows to using guns.