NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Thousands of terrified and mainly ethnic Kikuyu refugees took shelter in churches in and around the west Kenyan town of Eldoret on Tuesday as vigilante gangs roamed outside, a Catholic priest said.

"There are four to five thousand in the main cathedral, and thousands in other churches," Father Paul Brennan, an Irishman, told Reuters from the town. "Houses are being burned. It is too dangerous to go outside and count the dead." (Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Charles Dick)

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