Kenya Opposition Said: Death Toll 1,000

8 Jan 2008 CNN

The feet of the dead are shown in a Nairobi morgue.

The opposition, claimed violence, much of it fueled by tribal rivalries, has killed up to 1,000 people. A statement from the Government's Ministry of Special Programs put the death toll at 486 with some 255,000 people displaced from their homes.

An official in neighboring Uganda said 30 fleeing Kenyans were thrown into the border river by Kenyan attackers, and were presumed drowned.

Two Ugandan truck drivers carrying the group said they were stopped at a roadblock mounted by vigilantes who identified the refugees as Kikuyus and threw them into the deep, swift-flowing Kipkaren River, said Himbaza Hashaka, a Ugandan border official. The drivers said none survived, Hashaka said.