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Eldoret businesses remain closed as hawkers, county askaris battle in CBD

Screenshot of the goons looting from a superrmarket.

Businesses were for the better part of today disrupted in Eldoret town after hawkers and street families engaged the police in running battles.

For fear of looting and destruction of property, traders shut down their business premises in the town's Central Business District following the battles reportedly sparked off by clashes between hawkers and Uasin Gishu County enforcement officers.

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