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 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Hundreds of people fled a Nairobi shantytown on Friday, picking their way through a maze of dusty streets as they accused police of terrorizing the innocent in their crackdown on an outlawed gang.
While many in Mathare acknowledge the shadowy Mungiki sect does operates from slum, they also said police were indiscriminately rounding up residents and demolishing homes in search of weapons. More than 30 people have died in the crackdown.
"I have never witnessed in my life anything like what is happening," Jane Wachira, a 37-year-old mother of three, told The Associated Press as she packed her bags Friday. "My children and I are traumatized."
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