Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has invited his rival Raila Odinga for talks next Friday aimed at ending the political crisis that has killed 600 people.
Five other members of Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement were also invited to the talks, along with several religious leaders.
The new police figures are an increase on those provided by a government humanitarian committee set up to deal with the crisis since the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki.
It gave the death toll as 486.
Earlier, Mr Odinga called off banned protests scheduled for tomorrow because a 'mediation process' was about to begin.
Speaking on RTÉ Radio's Today with Pat Kenny, Fr Martin Barry - a priest in the north of the country which has been worst affected by tribal violence - described the situation there.
'The attackers are coming in raining hordes. They have been described as like locusts, like a swarm of locusts. And they are carrying bows and arrows,' Fr Barry said.
'There has been real war here in the last six days, from Monday to Saturday. Thanks be to God, yesterday was quiet.'
