Kenya police ambush training camp

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Kenyan police have raided an illegal military training camp in a thick forest in south-eastern Coast Province.

One armed man was shot dead and 26 others arrested, say police, when they were attacked with knives and machetes.

Police found some 80 youths and allege they were planning to drive a rival community off land along the coast and attack a police station.

Earlier this month 30 people died in a police crackdown on a banned group called the Mungiki in a Nairobi slum.

The police are now investigating who is funding the training camps.

Local police chief Patrick Mbarire told the BBC that after a tip-off they found about 80 young men who had been camping in the Mulungunipa Forest for several days.

"We arrived, the boys saw us and confronted us. We ordered them to roll down their pangas [machetes] and knives but they charged at us," he said.

"They managed to cut one of our officers on his right wrist and another one on the forehead. We managed to shoot one, who died on his way to hospital."

He says they found flags and information linking them to an unregistered local political party - the Revolutionary Republican Council.