Attackers armed with machetes, bows and arrows and spears have killed at least 48 people in southeastern Kenya.
Villagers were locked in their houses as they were set alight and the attackers killed anyone who tried to escape.
The raid in Kenya's coastal region was part of a long-running dispute between the area's Pokomo and Orma groups over grazing land and water.
Deputy police chief Robert Kitur said: "They were armed with crude weapons: machetes, bows and arrows and spears. Some had guns.
"As a result we have lost 31 women, 11 children and six men, all totalling 48."
A Kenyan Red Cross official said they had counted 59 bodies, and the group had ferried more than 40 injured people to a hospital in Malindi town, 150km away from the scene.
"Many of the injured are women and children with severe burns ... 11 have deep cuts on their heads and other body parts," the official said.
"I have counted seven with bullet wounds. We have tried to stabilise them, but honestly it will be a miracle if all of them arrive at hospital alive."
Police said about 100 raiders from the Pokomo attacked Rekete village, inhabited by Ormas, late last night.
The raid was in retaliation for an attack by Orma youths on Pokomo farmers, which killed two people.
The long dispute between the two groups began after the farmers accused the pastoralists of grazing their cattle in their farms.
