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Kenyan village attack leave dozens dead

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**EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC MATERIAL**<br/> <br />EDITORS NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> <br />The ruins of a Kenyan village sit smouldering after a raid by armed attackers wielding machetes and spears.<br/> <br />Police said villagers were locked in their homes before the structures were set alight, leaving dozens dead.<br/> <br />Anyone trying to escape was killed.<br/> <br />The Kenyan Red Cross said they had the bodies of almost 60 people after the raid. Forty injured villagers were taken to hospital.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: TANA RIVER RESIDENT, OSMAN HAJI, SAYING (Kiswahili):<br/> <br />"They started attacking us at about five in the morning and they started burning houses from that direction and also killing cattle. I was in the house when I saw them. When some of them entered one of the houses, I ran away and hid. They were more than 300 people."<br/> <br />The raid was part of a long running dispute between two rival groups, fighting over grazing land and water.<br/> <br />Police said it was in retaliation for an earlier attack which left two people dead.<br/> <br />More security has been deployed to the area to ease tension.<br/> <br />The attack shocked local authorities, who said the dispute appeared to have been resolved at a meeting last week.

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