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By Steve Mkawale and Beatrice Obwocha The families had arrived only four days earlier, men, women and children driving their herds to Naibol, which in Samburu language means "the place of white soil".
It had been their oasis of hope throughgenerations, replete with water and pasture when drought ravaged the land, as it does now. Several hundred animals had been assembled at the village when the raiders struck at dawn yesterday, and killed anyone who stood in their way — most of them women and children.
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