(Reuters) – Around 22 people are missing after a border clash between Ethiopian and Kenyan fishermen, Kenyan police and government officials said.
The fighting happened on Saturday evening at Lopeimukat and Natira near the Omo river along the Kenya-Ethiopia border, Kenya’s Turkana county governor Jeremiah Lomorukai said in a statement released on Sunday.
Turkana county police said on Sunday around 22 Kenyan fishermen were unaccounted for, and that 15 boats were stolen, while six ethnic Dasenech fishermen from Ethiopia had been rescued and returned to their country.
Kenya’s Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen wrote on X on Sunday that the government had deployed additional security to the border and that he was engaging with Addis Ababa to “broker peace between the two communities.”
(Reporting by Humphrey Malalo; Writing by Hereward Holland; Editing by Ros Russell)
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