Nairobi - As the violence following the contested re- election of President Mwai Kibaki continued in Kenya, displaced people started running out of food and water, Kenyan media reported Tuesday. There were petrol and food shortages as many shops had remained closed since Thursday's elections with panic buying wherever supermarkets opened for a few hours, The Standard newspaper reported.
A humanitarian crisis was unfolding in Nairobi and in Kisumu in the west, the area worst hit by the violence, where a huge number of displaced people were sleeping in the cold in police stations, schools and churches.
Houses belonging to Kikuyus, Kibaki's tribe, were burned around the country.
Parts of some slums were flattened once all goods were looted from stores by angry supporters from the Luo tribe of defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga.
Humanitarian organizations were having a hectic time attending to the displaced, according to the reports.
On Monday, police sources said they had collected and taken to mortuaries around the country at least 164 bodies, The Standard reported.
The highest number of killings was reported in Kisumu, where reporters counted 43 bodies at a local mortuary.
Witnesses said the police fired live bullets after protesters threw stones and broke into shops, The Standard reported.
Of these, two were women and three children, according to a police source.
According to The Standard, there were also many deaths at Manyatta and Nyamasira, where police shot at protesters allegedly looting and burning shops.
In Nairobi, at least 40 bodies were collected on Monday from various alleys of slums and other estates, the reports said.
