Kenyan Gang Clashes With Police, 4 Dead
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NAIROBI, Kenya — A notorious criminal gang exchanged gunfire with police and put up blazing roadblocks yesterday, threatening to spread violence nationwide unless authorities free their leader in an unsettling new danger for Kenya’s bloody postelection crisis. The upheaval started before dawn and killed at least four people as members of the outlawed Mungiki gang protested the death of their imprisoned leader’s wife, who authorities said was found beheaded last week. They burned buildings and derailed a train in the capital.
