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肯尼亚东南部地区爆发种族冲突,至少30人被杀。
Children and policemen were among those killed in an attack on a village by hundreds of people.
Nearly 100 people have now been killed in the clashes in the eastern Tana River district since last month.
Rival ethnic groups have been involved in tit-for-tat violence over cattle-grazing rights in the region, one of the poorest in Kenya.
The Red Cross said that in this latest violence, Kilelengwani village was attacked on Monday by more than 300 people, who set fire to 167 houses.
Violent history
"The bodies have not been removed from the ground... The situation is getting dangerous, something needs to be done urgently," Kenya Red Cross chief Abbas Gullet said in a statement.
A police spokesman told the BBC that 30 people had been killed, including eight policemen.
Last month more than 50 people were killed in the fighting and a further 12 died last week.
It is the worst violence to hit Kenya since disputed presidential elections in 2007.
The Orma and Pokomo communities have a long history of tension over access to land and water in this ecologically rich area.
The Pokomo are mostly farmers, while the Orma are semi-nomadic(游牧的) cattle-herders.
The BBC's Anne Mawathe, who visited the area at the weekend, says it was clear that there would be a new revenge attack and this now seems to have happened.
She says the long-standing rivalry3 between the two communities has been made worse by an influx4 of weapons from neighbouring Somalia.
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