The overall death toll of Kenya's post-electoral violence climbed to 341 after overnight violence yielded 35 more fatalities in the country's western towns.
NAIROBI: The overall death toll of Kenya's post-electoral violence climbed to 341 after overnight violence yielded 35 more fatalities in the country's western towns, officials said on Wednesday.
Amongst the dead were two police officers killed in the western town of Kericho when a group of youth armed with bows and arrows attacked them, a police official told.
"The officers died on their way to hospital," he said.
Some 12 more bodies were overnight taken to a mortuary in Eldoret's Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, bringing the total number of dead people in the mortuary since polling day to 84, a hospital official said.
The 12 had been killed in the battlefields in the outskirts of Eldoret.
This brings the countrywide toll to least 341 people dead in politically related violence since December 27 polling day, according to an AFP tally compiled from police, mortuary attendants and aid workers.
Six people were killed in the volatile Rift Valley province while seven other died in clashes that erupted in the capital Nairobi's Huruma slums, police said.
Police reported a lower scale of violence in the country with fighting reported in western Kenya and the capital Nairobi.
A Kenyan government security document put the death toll at 184 and hundreds detained. "Sporadic incidents of violence have taken place in various parts of the country leaving about 184 Kenyans dead," police spokesman Eric Kiraithe told.
The official, who requested to remain unnamed, said police were still collecting figures across the east African nation that has seen its worst rioting since a 1982 coup attempt.
Rioting and tribal clashes intensified on Sunday after the electoral panel announced President Mwai Kibaki the winner, but opposition leader Raila Odinga has rejected the outcome.
The European Union electoral monitoring mission has said the polls fell short of international standards and called for an investigation while foreign governments have prevailed upon the rival leaders to open a dialogue.
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