Summary Hundreds of residents are fleeing their homes in northwestern Kenya.
It is being done in fear of retaliatory attacks by security forces after the slaughter of at least 32 police by suspected cattle thieves over the weekend.
Police commissioner Mathew Iteere said Tuesday that a serious operation has begun to pursue the killers.
The police were killed after an ambush by bandits from the Turkana tribe who are suspected to have stolen cattle from the Samburu tribe.
Francis Karimi, an administrator in Baragoi, the main town in Samburu North district, said there has been a massive build- up of police officers. Karimi said nearly 1,500 members of the Turkana community have fled the village of Lenorock.
Iteere said 32 police were dead and seven missing. A Baragoi official put the death toll at 34.
