(5 Dec 2001)
ALL TOKO MATERIAL
1. Kibera slum with smoke rising
2. Smoke over slum
3. Various of paramilitary police firing live ammo and tear gas
4. Police questioning residents
5. Residents fleeing with their belongings
6. Youth with sticks and machetes roaming the slum
STORYLINE:
Bloody clashes over disputed rents in East Africa's largest slum continued on Wednesday as police struggled to control the violence.
At least 12 people have been reported killed in the riots which broke out in the Kibera slum, four kilometres (three miles) from central Nairobi, on Tuesday.
As the violence spilled over into the following day, Kenyan paramilitary police used live ammunition and tear gas on residents, some of whom were armed with machetes and sticks.
Home to some 600-thousand people, Kibera residents began fleeing the area on Wednesday amid reports of multiple injuries.
The clashes are primarily between two groups.
The Nubians, who originate from neighbouring Sudan and generally the landlords in Kibera, and relative newcomers from the Luo tribe of western Kenya.
The fighting is the latest and worst in a series of clashes that started 10 days ago when President Daniel Arap Moi called for lower rents in the area.
Kibera dwellings currently costs between 1,500 shillings (20 US dollars) and 3,000 shillings (38 US dollars) a month.
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