Nine killed, eight injured as 200 animals stolen in daytime attack

Muslim community in Isiolo Town converged near LMD cemetery where they prayed and later buried six bodies of herders killed by armed cattle rustlers in Burati area. [Bruno Mutunga, Standard]

Nine people were killed and eight others wounded in two separate attacks in Isiolo County.

In the first incident, about 50 raiders believed to be from two neighbouring counties attacked villages at Murhim borehole, about 12 kilometres west of Isiolo town on Friday afternoon.