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Activists see the killing as a setback in the efforts to eliminate the practice, despite it being illegal in the east African country

Picasa/GettyA police officer in Kenya who had helped protect girls forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) was confronted by a gang of youths and violently killed, reports say. Officers in Elgeyo Marakwet county in the Rift Valley region had taken a group of six girls to a hospital after they were subjected to the illegal procedure, according to The Guardian. A mob then stormed into a police post “in a bid to get the girls,” whereupon they “overpowered the officer ...

He was stoned and killed on the spot before his body was partially burnt