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Coast insecurity: Panic as 12 killed in two weeks

Saumu Shame is consoled by her daughter at their Bububuu home in Mombasa County. Ms Saumu’s son was shot dead by police early last week. [Mkamburi Mwawasi, Standard]

Twelve people have been killed by police and gangsters in the past two weeks in Mombasa County.

The killings occurred in Likoni and Kisauni, where the majority of Mombasa’s poor live and where violent crime, gang warfare and police killings are common.

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