At least two men were shot and killed in an attack by gunmen in Gof Dertu Manyatta, North Horr, Marsabit County.
This increased to four, the number of people who had been killed in the area on the same day, police said.
Police said an unknown number of gunmen, attacked one manyatta within the area, which belonged a local Wayu community for unknown reasons.
The incident happened on May 19. As a result, two men who were identified as Bukuno Galgallo, 28 and Katello Guyo Galgallo, 25 were shot and killed.
Nothing was stolen during the incident and the motive of the attack is suspected might be a retaliation in response to two other men who had been found murdered in Qorqa sub-location earlier on.
Police combed the area in a bid to catch the assailants in vain. The bodies were moved to a local mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures.
Such incidents are common in the area amid efforts to contain them. The clans usually fight for resources including water, grazing fields and animals.
This prompts attacks and counter attacks, which have left many villages mourning and bleeding. Authorities have rolled out programmes aimed at enabling the locals change their culture.
The programmes include increasing development projects and opening up roads in the area. The government has also rolled out an operation to disarm locals of their illegal guns that are fueling the violence.
The county is among those under Operation Maliza Uhalifu. The operation was launched in 2024 and targeted Marsabit, Isiolo, Turkana, Meru, Samburu, Elgeyo Marakwet, Baringo and West Pokot Counties.
Tens of guns have since been recovered in the exercise. The government has also employed more reservists to help in the operations amid the persistence from the attackers.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has been leading in the campaign.
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