AMBON, Indonesia (Reuters) - Clashes between Christians and Moslems killed 12 people in Indonesia‘s Moluccas, bringing the number of dead in a week of religious violence to 66, witnesses said on Tuesday. Six people were stabbed to death on Tuesday on Kai Besar island, some 3,300 km east of Jakarta, one witness said. Another six were killed on neighbouring Kai Kecil on Monday evening, another witness said. Three were stabbed and three had been shot. Police in the provincial capital Ambon, some 550 km northwest of the Kai islands, said they were not aware of Tuesday‘s incident, but were aware that two people died in Kai Kecil on Monday. However, Rahaoa, a source from a security office in the Kai islands, told Reuters: "Six people died during the clash this morning." The clashes abated after heavy rain fell, the source said. Moluccas police spokesman, Major Jekriel Phillips said the situation on both islands was under control. Phillips said there were no more reports of any clashes, saying only two people died from Monday‘s incident. "I don‘t know about it (Tuesday‘s clash), but yesterday two people were killed during a clash," Phillips told Reuters from Ambon. Thousands of women and children have fled their villages in the islands to seek refuge in military compounds, churches and mosques. Christian men with red headbands and Moslem men with white roam the streets and guard their neighbourhoods, carrying bows and arrows, spears, machetes and axes. The unrest erupted last Wednesday, triggered by a land dispute. It peaked on Saturday when police and soldiers fired volleys of rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of Christian and Moslem combatants in Kai Besar. Christians make up 75 percent of the population and Moslems the rest in the Southeast Moluccas regency. The area is at the eastern edge of Indonesia‘s violence-racked Moluccas province. Scores of extra troops have been rushed to the Kai islands since the latest bloodshed began. More than 250 people have died this year in communal violence in the province.