Six killed in game park gun battle

A fight between two rival groups of herders in a game park in Isiolo County left six people dead and several others nursing gunshot wounds.

One side, from Leruko village in Kipsing location, were reported to have driven their cattle and goats to a drinking point along Isiolo River within Buffalo Springs National Reserve when their rivals from a village in Ngaremara location allegedly laid a rustling ambush that led to a fierce exchange of gunfire on Saturday afternoon.