Nine killed in inter-clan fighting in Kenya
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Kenyan police officers are deployed in Kisumu slum on March 9, 2013. Nine people were killed on Friday night in fresh inter-clan violence in northeastern Kenya's border region with war-torn Somalia, police said. (AFP/File)
Nine people were killed on Friday night in fresh inter-clan violence in northeastern Kenya's border region with war-torn Somalia, police said on Saturday.
"Nine people were killed, four in Mandera and five in Wajir," a police officer who declined to be named told AFP.
"The two incidents are related because the second one was a retaliatory attack of the earlier one," added the officer.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Among the victims is a police reservist who had tried to intervene in the fighting between members of the Degodia and Garreh clans.
In the Mandera incident, unidentified gunmen shot at a lorry, killing four people who were travelling in the vehicle.
"There has been a problem in that region and that is what we want to bring to an end," Kenya police chief David Kimaiyo said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"The two communities were fighting, there are people killed and others injured but we have deployed more police officers to the region to restore peace," he added.