Forty brothers blamed for sporadic attacks in Butere

75-year-old Dorcas Khakayi at Mwichinga Village in Butere Kakamega County whose 30-year-old son Mosses Ekodongo (in the portrait) was butchered in cold blood last month. A group of youth calling themselves the '42 brothers' have unleashed terror in the villages resulting in killings where victims are found slaughtered but nothing stolen. [Chrispen Sechere/Standard]

A gang calling itself Forty Two Brothers has been terrorising villages in Butere constituency for months now, leaving a trail of death and pain in its wake.

The gang has killed at least 12 people and injured 40 others in the last two months.