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Overall crime figures fall in Kenya, but more rapes

30 Dec 2006 14:01:13 GMT
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NAIROBI, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Murders, robberies and carjackings dropped in Kenya in 2006, the east African country's first published annual crime statistics have shown.

But other categories rose, including sexual offences such as rape, incest and sodomy.

Police said 70,206 crimes were reported overall this year compared with 75,000 in 2005, a fall of 6.4 percent.

"However, there was an increase in economic crimes... and sexual offences that include rape, defilement, incest and sodomy," Kenya's police chief Mohammed Hussein Ali told reporters at a briefing late on Friday.

He said crime in the capital -- nicknamed "Nairobbery" by some residents -- had dropped 11 percent. But the city of three million still suffered the highest crime rates in the country, he said.

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