Machete gang attacks Kenyan minister

youths brandishing machetes attacked a Kenyan cabinet minister at a public meeting and killed his bodyguard before the crowd beat three of the attackers to death, police said yesterday.

Fisheries minister Amason Kingi was unharmed in the
incident on Thursday, which police blamed on a separatist group campaigning for the
secession of Kenya’s coastal strip.

“We believe these are the people who are coming from the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC). We know that they are armed to engage in unlawful activities,” Aggrey Adoli, the region’s police chief, said.
The MRC denied the allegation. “We know there are politicians who are competing for political seats in the coming elections,”
it said.

“They are targeting to outdo one another using any means, including sending of militia to disrupt one another’s meetings.”