13 killed in Kenyan village

Six children and seven adults were burned or hacked to death Monday in an attack blamed on a land dispute in Kenya’s fertile Rift Valley northwest of Nairobi.

Dozens of people with assault rifles and machetes stormed Embakasi village. Rabson Mbuya, a police reservist who said his wife, three children and housekeeper were killed, was on patrol when he saw the attackers knock on the door of his home before dawn.

“There was no response,” Mbuya said, weeping. “One spilled petrol on the roof before torching it. I heard my wife and children scream, but there was no way I could go near and rescue them.”

It was the first major eruption of violence since a power-sharing agreement was forged last week in the wake of Kenya’s disputed presidential election.