- Seven houses were burnt during the incident believed to be a retaliation of a similar one that happened in the same area.
- Two communities living there have been fighting over a slaughterhouse and this has degenerated into chaos and deaths.
At least three men were shot dead in a village in Bambo West, Mandera County in a renewed inter-clan fighting.
Dozens of houses were burnt in the incident that happened on Sunday morning, police said of the Mandera North incident.
The deceased were identified as Omar Abdi Mohamed, Gedi Abdi Qaley, and Hassan Osman Mohamed and had been shot at close range, police said.
Seven houses were burnt during the incident believed to be a retaliation of a similar one that happened in the same area.
Two communities living there have been fighting over a slaughterhouse and this has degenerated into chaos and deaths.
According to police, those behind the Sunday attack were a militia. They denied police permission to pick up the bodies of the deceased threatening bloody war.
Police however managed to pick the bodies after the intervention of local elders.
Those whose victims were killed refused to have the bodies go through postmortem and took them for burial later in the day.
Tension is high in the area amid fears of more attacks from the warring armed clans.
On September 15, gunshots were heard, and a number of makeshift houses burnt in the Slaughterhouse area within Rhamu Township.
Police established about 15 houses were burnt which is believed to have prompted the relation on September 17.
The fighting is between the Degodia and Murule clans, police said.
The two groups have been fighting for the past weeks over a site they use for slaughtering their animals, officials said.
This led to each of them raiding the other homesteads and setting their houses on fire.
Multi-agency teams visited the scene as part of efforts to calm down the fighting. They were informed attackers from each side were armed with rifles and could shoot at some point.
This has forced many residents from both sides to migrate from their homesteads.
When the security teams visited the scene they said they did not find anyone there.
They found houses burnt down. Such cases of inter-clan attacks are common in the area.
They usually fight over grazing fields, food, watering places, and slaughter sites. Officials say they are making efforts to tame such future incidents.