Reuters South AfricaNAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan police officer has been killed by members of an Ethiopian tribal militia after a clash along the two countries' common border, Kenyan media said on Saturday.
The private Kenya Television Network said the officer from the paramilitary General Service Unit was killed late on Friday after 500 militiamen, believed to be from the Merille tribe, attacked the unit's camp.
The report said the 500 gunmen were on the counter-attack after the Kenyan officers repulsed them away from the waters of Lake Turkana, on the Kenyan side, after a shoot-out that lasted four hours.
Five other Kenyan officers are missing after the attack, which is believed to involve Ethiopian Merille tribesmen, the station added.
The reported location of the clashes, Todonyang, is a village that has been abandoned since 1997, when its two ethnic communities, Merille and Turkana, fought and dispersed into Ethiopia and Kenya respectively.
Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua declined to comment on the report, saying he had no details.
Kenya's long borders with Sudan, Ethiopia and politically unstable Somalia care a constant source of security concerns.
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