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Helicopters open fire above Kenya town, 13 die in fresh clashes by Beatrice Debut

NAIVASHA, Kenya (AFP) - Kenyan military helicopters opened fire above feuding gangs in a western town on Tuesday while 13 died in fresh clashes as the murder of an opposition lawmaker sparked new chaos.

Nine people died in tribal fighting in western Kenya and four were killed in a Nairobi slum, police and medical sources said, as riots and ethnic clashes flared across the country.

Meanwhile, three Kenyan military helicopters opened fire above fighting ethnic groups in the western Rift Valley town of Naivasha, police and witnesses told AFP.

"The crowd is unruly and we want to disperse them, that is why we're using helicopters," a police commander told AFP in the lakeside town, a flashpoint of the most recent clashes since the disputed reelection of President Mwai Kibaki on December 27.

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