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They crept out of the night like ghouls, dozens of Mungiki followers, the axes, pangas and rungus in their hands betraying their intentions: to kill. In their wake, they left devastated families, mutilated bodies and a despairing sense that the spreading pools of blood could well cover the whole land. The sect had regrouped to retaliate the killing of 14 of its members by vigilantes. They selected Gathaithi village in Nyeri East District in Kenya's Central Province and planned mass murder with cold blooded precision. Central provincial police boss John M’Mbijjiwe said: “The attackers burnt a house to attract as...

Religious sect beheads two02/06/2007 16:53  - (SA)     Nairobi - Two people were beheaded and more than a dozen passengers robbed on Saturday in central Kenya in a surge of violent crime blamed on members a banned pseudo-religious sect, police said. Police said members of Mungiki, a shadowy religious group with alleged historic ties to the Mau Mau independence uprising, attacked a day after President Mwai Kibaki vowed to crack down on the organisation. "A driver and a conductor of a passenger van were beheaded in Maragua district this morning," said Sabastian Ndaru, the chief police investigator for the country's Central Province....