The East African Standard (Nairobi)
28 January 2008
Posted to the web 28 January 2008

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Beatrice Obwocha And Karanja Njoroge
Nairobi

Sixty people have been killed in post-election violence in Nakuru.

The death toll is expected to rise as rival groups continued to clash yesterday. Fifty-five bodies are lying at the Nakuru Municipal Mortuary. The other five were yet to be collected from the town's estates.

The mortuary has a capacity of 42 bodies, but has been stretched to the limit.

By yesterday evening, more than 100 victims were admitted to the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital nursing arrows, cuts and bullet wounds.

Burning of houses continued in various estates as hundreds fled from their homes. Police and military officers patrolled the town and the suburbs to contain the violence that entered its third day yesterday.

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