Kenya ? Fierce street battles erupted in a western Kenyan city Friday, leaving bodies lying on the ground with machete slashes and pierced with arrows, witnesses said.

At least 12 people were killed and hundreds of homes were burned down in the latest explosion of fury over a deeply flawed presidential election.

The violence broke out in Nakuru, the country’s fourth largest city. Youths with bows and arrows threw cans filled with gasoline at homes, setting them ablaze, and fired illegal homemade guns. One victim was stoned to death, said a local newspaper reporter who witnessed the killing.

As the violence raged, President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga remained far apart on the central question of who really won the Dec. 27 election.