Northeastern Regional Commissioner John Otieno confirmed the incident on Wednesday evening, saying the deceased were ambushed and killed by unknown gunmen while they were inside their vehicle. <\/p>\n
“We have launched investigations to establish the cause of the incident. The police have already arrested one suspect who is aiding with investigations,” Otieno told journalists. <\/p>\n
Otieno said the attack is suspected to be a revenge mission after another person from the rival clan was murdered. <\/p>\n
He added that at least 10 people from either clan have been killed in the inter-clan clashes said to have been caused by a longstanding land scuffle. Residents said two of the victims of the attack were school students who were on their way home for a holiday. <\/p>\n
“The six people who were killed were traveling in a vehicle but were stopped along by the attackers and all of them were executed, including two high-school students who were going home for the holiday,” a local resident who declined to be identified said on phone.<\/p>\n
Tension remained high amid fears of retaliation from the affected group. Inter-clan clashes over pieces of land are common in Garissa County, with several people losing their lives and scores getting injured as a result. <\/p>\n
Residents said the loss of communal grazing land to farming and environmental degradation has also fuelled conflicts in a number of pastoral areas across northern Kenya, noting that freedom of movement over large areas was a crucial element of the pastoralists’ dry lands resource management system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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