Sad! children killed in inter-border conflict

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Three people have been killed and scores wounded in a fierce gun battle between two rival groups along Isiolo-Garissa border.

The gun fight started at around 6 am Tuesday morning at Janju after members of one village attacked residents of a neighboring village. Janju is near Modogashe in Garba-Tula District, Isiolo County.

The victims were identified as a raider and children aged 11 and 13,an unknown number of people were reportedly injured.

The administrator said officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Garba Tula Sub-county went to the scene for investigations.

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“DCI officers are on the ground to find the root cause of the attack, which I will confirm later,” he said.

Security personnel from Garba Tula in Isiolo and Lagdera in Garissa were dispatched to the area to beef up security.

The attack follows the killing of two people on Saturday in a clash between armed groups from Isiolo and Garissa, at Uchana in the latter county.

One person was injured in this incident and on Sunday morning, two people were wounded during a botched cattle raid at Mata Bofu, Isiolo, by suspected rustlers from Lagdera.

A few hours after the botched raid, one person was injured when fracas erupted at Modogashe livestock market.

Two pastoralist communities from Isiolo and Garissa counties have been fighting over pasture and the boundary between the counties.

Who is to blame in the on going border conflict? is the government doing enough to protect its citizens?

The Borana from Garba-Tula in Isiolo and their Aulihan colleagues from Lagdera in Garissa have had a long.

The two sides are also involved in border disputes in areas like Eldera and Kambi Samaki. The Borana were displaced from Eldera four months ago and the displaced families are camping in Garba-Tula town.

Eight candidates from Eldera Primary School did their KCPE at Modogashe. KCPE and KCSE scripts for Modogashe and Sericho areas were airlifted by a chopper after bandits attacked motorists along Garba-Tula-Modogashe road.

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