Kenyan police have arrested 16 Somali MPs and other government officials in a raid on suspected illegal migrants in the capital, Nairobi, officials say.
About 300 people were picked up in the raid in the Eastleigh district, home to a large ethnic Somali population.
Prominent Kenyan Muslim leader Al-Amin Kimathi has also been arrested.
The raid follows violent clashes on Friday between police and groups protesting at plans to deport a controversial Muslim cleric.
Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti has accused Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab of links to the clashes, which left at least five people dead.
But an al-Shabab spokesman told the BBC this was not true.
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