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Over 70 Kenyans killed by Ugandan herdsmen

    NAIROBI
    More than 70 Turkana pastoralists from Kenya were killed and all their guns confiscated when the Karamojong from Dodoth raided them at Kasile in Kotido district, northeastern Uganda. The semi-official ‘New Vision’ newspaper on Saturday reported that the assailants also grabbed over 10,000 heads of cattle from the Turkana who had entered Uganda to graze their animals. It is suspected that the attack could have been in revenge for an attack earlier in the year by the Turkana and Toposa of Sudan on the Karamojong, in which 54 people from Dodoth were killed.

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