LAMU, Kenya, Jan 4- Police are investigating claims that the attackers who killed six people in Mpeketoni area, Lamu County were motivated by alleged land issues.
Officers who visited the scene said preliminary findings had shown the attack was perpetrated by locals fighting over land.
The planners, according to police, wanted the so-called continued encroachment of their farms by farmers stopped.
The alleged encroachment is said to be by people mostly considered as nonlocals.
All those who were killed were non-locals. One was shot dead while the others were burnt in their houses.
According to police, those hacked to death or targeted were all well known for aggressively agitating for land rights of the farmers and other deserving cases.
Investigations are ongoing.
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