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Find permanent solution to recurrent insecurity in Kitui

Some residents of Kitui South fleeing their homes for fear of attacks by neigbouring communities. [Paul Mutua, Standard]

Banditry has reared its ugly head in Kitui County again. Hundreds of people are fleeing their homes along Kitui-Tana River border following the macabre killing of a man and injuring of several others by herdsmen from the latter county.

The exodus of frightened residents reportedly started after the herders shot a shopkeeper, dragged his body outside his shop and chopped off his head at Ingo village.

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