Kenya attempts to recover the body of a British rancher who was shot dead by armed herders over the weekend in Laikipia county in central Kenya, have failed after gunmen shot at the search team sent out by his family.

Although, the Kenya’s police boss, Joseph Boinnet, have denied attack on the search team, but, Ceoafrica gathered that Tristan Voorspuy was killed by pastoral herders when he went to inspect some of his lodges that had been burned by the attackers.

Laikipia and surrounding counties have been experiencing high rates of violence driven mostly by herders who are looking for pasture for their animals but some analysts have also attributed the rise insecurity to local politics.

Ranch owners in Kenya’s central countryside of Laikipia have asked the government to provide more security in the area.

They fear that the insecurity could spread in the next couple of weeks as grazing land runs out in the areas already occupied by the herders because of a severe drought in the north of the country.

Meanwhile, tension is high in neighbouring Baringo County after the government deployed hundreds of security officers and issued a controversial shoot-to-kill order in response to similar drought-related raids.