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| Seven dead in Kenya sect protests | |
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| Police in the Kenyan capital Nairobi say they have shot dead seven people involved in protests in the city. | Police in the Kenyan capital Nairobi say they have shot dead seven people involved in protests in the city. |
| The protests were led by the illegal Mungiki sect. They follow the discovery of the beheaded body of the wife of the sect's leader at the weekend. | |
| Protesters were also reportedly angered by the sect leader's imprisonment. | |
| One report describes police clashing with machete-waving gang members who blocked roads with burning cars and set a police post on fire. | One report describes police clashing with machete-waving gang members who blocked roads with burning cars and set a police post on fire. |
| Public transport into Nairobi from the suburbs is suffering severe disruption following the clashes, which first broke out over the weekend. | |
| The beheaded body of Virginia Nyaiko, wife of Maina Njenga, was recovered by relatives and members of the sect, who accuse a section of the police force of being behind the killings of its members. | |
| The Mungiki sect, which first emerged in the 1980s, is said to have been initially inspired by the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s against British colonial rule. | |
| But since then it is said to have undergone a metamorphosis, with members turning to horrific crimes and now likened to Kenya's version of the Mafia. |