WARDERS in Kenya have shot and killed six naked death row inmates during an attempted escape from a maximum security prison. Police spokesman Peter Kimanthi said two other death row convicts had managed to escape from King’ong’o Maximum Security Prison in the town of Nyeri, 200km north of the capital Nairobi. He said warders opened fire on the convicts, sentenced to hang for robbery with violence, as they attempted to scale an 8m perimeter wall. The prisoners had stripped off and tied their prison uniforms together to form a rope. The Kenya Human Rights Commission estimates there are close to 2 000 prisoners on death row although there have been no executions since 1985. – Reuters