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Eleven dead as post-election unrest erupts in Kenya
Source: Reuters
#WORLD NEWS AUGUST 12, 2017 / 6:22 AM / 19 MINUTES AGO
Eleven dead as post-election unrest erupts in Kenya
Katharine Houreld and Maggie Fick
6 MIN READ
NAIROBI/KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan police killed at least 11 people in a crackdown on protests as anger at the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta erupted in the western city of Kisumu and slums surrounding the capital, officials and witnesses said on Saturday.
The bodies of nine young men shot dead overnight in Nairobi's Mathare slum were brought to the city morgue, a security official told Reuters, adding that the men had been killed during a police anti-looting operation.
Separately, a young girl in Mathare was killed by police firing "sporadic shots", a witness said. The run-down neighborhood is loyal to 72-year-old opposition leader Raila Odinga, whose party rejected Tuesday's vote as a "charade".
A Reuters reporter in Kisumu, center of post-election ethnic violence a decade ago in which 1,200 people died nationwide, said tear gas and live rounds were fired. A government official said one man had been killed in the county.
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Eleven dead as post-election unrest erupts in Kenya
Katharine Houreld and Maggie Fick
6 MIN READ
NAIROBI/KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan police killed at least 11 people in a crackdown on protests as anger at the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta erupted in the western city of Kisumu and slums surrounding the capital, officials and witnesses said on Saturday.
The bodies of nine young men shot dead overnight in Nairobi's Mathare slum were brought to the city morgue, a security official told Reuters, adding that the men had been killed during a police anti-looting operation.
Separately, a young girl in Mathare was killed by police firing "sporadic shots", a witness said. The run-down neighborhood is loyal to 72-year-old opposition leader Raila Odinga, whose party rejected Tuesday's vote as a "charade".
A Reuters reporter in Kisumu, center of post-election ethnic violence a decade ago in which 1,200 people died nationwide, said tear gas and live rounds were fired. A government official said one man had been killed in the county.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-election-idUSKBN1AS0D1?il=0
