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06/26/2024June 26, 2024
Police fire blanks in Nairobi suburb
police have said they fired over 700 blank rounds to disperse protesters in the Nairobi suburb of Githurai overnight into Wednesday morning.
Videos of gunfire piercing the night air were shared online and reported by local media.
Meanwhile, Kenyan military personnel were deployed in the capital’s central business district to support police after vowed in an evening address to quash unrest “at whatever cost.”
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06/26/2024June 26, 2024
‘At least 13 people killed’ on Tuesday, says doctors’ association
At least 13 people were killed during anti-government protests in on Tuesday, the Kenya Medical Association (KMA) said on Wednesday morning.
“So far, we have at least 13 people killed, but this is not the final number,” KMA President Simon Kigondu told the AFP news agency, warning that the figure could yet increase.
“We have never seen such a level of violence against unarmed people,” he said of the police response to .
After thousands of protesters stormed and burned a section of Kenya’s parliament building on Tuesday, .
Civil society groups say more than 100 people were injured. It remains unclear how many arrests were made.
An official at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi said on Wednesday that it was treating “160 people … some of them with soft tissue injuries, some of them with bullet wounds.”
mf/sms (AP, AFP, DPA, Reuters)
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