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 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A notorious criminal gang exchanged gunfire with police and put up blazing roadblocks Monday, threatening to spread violence nationwide unless authorities free their leader in an unsettling new danger for Kenya's bloody postelection crisis.
The upheaval started before dawn and killed at least four people as members of the outlawed Mungiki gang protested the death of their imprisoned leader's wife, who authorities said was found beheaded last week. They burned buildings and derailed a train in the capital.
"This is lawlessness and sheer madness," Joseph Kanyiri, a district commissioner in Nairobi, told The Associated Press.
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