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Houses razed down as police engage armed suspects

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Locals mill around cows that were shot dead as GSU officers engaged armed suspects. [Stephen Rutto, Standard]

At least ten houses were razed to the ground and several cows and goats shot dead yesterday as General Service Unit (GSU) officers pursued armed men suspected to have launched an attack on security personnel.

The GSU officers stormed Kapsiren village in Marakwet East during a morning raid in search of a gang of five men who police claim had shot at security personnel enforcing a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the troubled Kerio Valley.

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