Nation Correspondent
1 December 2006
Nairobi — Four herdsmen were seriously injured by a bomb believed to have been dropped from a Ugandan helicopter.
The incident occurred at Nakwage area on the Kenya-Uganda border. At least 60 pastoralists were killed early last month in a similar bombing on the Ugandan side of the border.
The four victims of the latest attack were brought to Kakuma hospital.
Lokichoggio Oropoi Kakuma Development Organisation (Lokado) chairman Augustine Kai gave the names of those injured to Turkana district commissioner George Ayonga.
A witness, Mr Akoel Munyes, said the Ugandan helicopter attacked them at the Kenyan border. He said the helicopter had crossed into the country from the Morocco base in Uganda and dropped four bombs on the herdsmen.
"We thought it was a Kenyan plane when it made four rounds at our manyatta in Nakwage area, Letea sub-location, Oropoi Division, before it dropped bombs on us," he said.
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