KENYA CONCERN AT ROADBLOCK DEATHS!

A Kenyan human rights group has condemned the killing of 14 people by Tanzanian police, who claim they were suspected bank robbers. On Tuesday, 12 of the dead were identified as Kenyan nationals - including one woman. Tanzanian police said the 14 suspects were killed during a shootout last Wednesday after they defied an order to stop at a police roadblock. But the Oscar Foundation says some of the bodies bore marks of torture. "The killings were occasioned by misinformation and lacked any intelligent information to justify them," said the foundation's executive director, Kamau Kingara.

Relatives of the slain Kenyans have raised doubts over the circumstances in which they were shot. But Kenyan police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said six of the 12 suspects had previous convictions and he praised the action taken by his Tanzanian counterparts. "It is apparent that they have been having brushes with the police in offences or violence for quite some time," Mr Kiraithe said. The Tanzanian authorities claim the suspects were planning a bank robbery in the northern town of Moshi - next to Mt Kilimanjaro - and said they recovered grenades, assault rifles, and bullet-proof vests from the suspects' car.

The bank alleged to have been the target of the planned robbery has given the Tanzanian police force a $4,000 reward. The Oscar Foundation said it would be taking its case to the Tanzania-based East Africa Court of Justice "to ensure the alleged perpetrators of the killings are brought to justice".

BBC NEWS REPORT.