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AFP, Kisumu

At least 66 bodies were discovered in Kenya following another night of police raids and tribal killings, police said Tuesday, bringing the toll for five days of post-election bloodshed to 251.

Forty-eight bodies, most of them with fresh bullet wounds, were brought to the morgue in the western Kenya city of Kisumu, a mortuary attendant told AFP Tuesday.

"They brought in 48 bodies, including three children, 44 had fresh bullet wounds, four were hacked with machetes," the mortuary attendant said.

Police raids and tribal clashes over the past two days had already claimed 53 lives in Kisumu, the country's third city and a stronghold of defeated presidential challenger Raila Odinga.

"In total since yesterday, we have 101 bodies lying in the mortuary," the attendant added amid fears more victims would be discovered.

In Kisumu's Kondele slum, "there are three uncollected bodies lying on the ground," John Otieno, a local resident, told an AFP correspondent on the scene.

"Police went on a killing spree overnight. They have been shooting indiscriminately at people," he added. At least 18 other people were killed overnight in the nearby town of Eldoret and its surroundings, police said.