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Organised crimes gangs including sheep rustlers and burglars are targeting farmers who have described "living in fear" of a new rural crime wave.

The team draws in informants, bootleggers, cattle rustlers and many other people in the community to develop the investigation.

The government has also been deploying the military and other security forces to fight cattle rustlers and armed bandits in several counties in East Africa's Rift Valley.

The first was an extract from a story about friends who believe they have come across sheep "rustlers" - a word used in the text, which means someone who steals animals from farms.

At least 11 people have been killed by cattle rustlers during an ambush in northern Kenya, police said.