Nairobi - Suspected Ethiopian cattle rustlers shot dead four Kenyan police reservists in northern Kenya, bringing the death toll from such violence to seven since the weekend, police said on Tuesday. They said the raiders attacked a village near the town if Lokitaung, about 40km south of the Kenyan-Ethiopian border, killing the victims overnight on Monday, they have said. "They fled after shooting dead four officers," said Everette Wasike, the police commander for Kenya's central Rift Valley province, where the incident occurred. At the weekend, authorities said another band of Ethiopian raiders attacked a border village in neighboring Eastern Province, killing three Kenyans whom they accused of being police informants. The latest killings brought to at least 150 the number of people killed in the volatile region in the past five months as longstanding tensions have intensified between the ethnic Borana of southern Ethiopia and Gabra of northern Kenya.

Source: Ethiopian News September 12, 2017 08:03 UTC