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 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Police stormed a Nairobi slum in search of members of a shadowy religious sect accused in a string of beheadings — killing 22 suspects and arresting 100 during overnight gunbattles, officials said Tuesday.
The action against the suspected members of the Mungiki, an outlawed sect inspired by a 1950s uprising against British rule, came after two police officers were shot dead in the Mathare slum Monday.
"The police mounted an operation to crack down on those who were behind the killing," police spokesman Eric Kiraithe told The Associated Press. More than 100 people tried to obstruct the operation and a shootout began, he said.
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