NAIROBI — Kenyan police fired teargas to disperse a crowd that was protesting yesterday against the overnight murder of four people in a slum in the capital Nairobi.
Reuters
Parts of the city have been gripped by tension since Friday when four people were killed in violence involving the police and opposition supporters who were accompanying their leader Raila Odinga after a trip abroad.
Japheth Koome, the police commander in the city, said investigations had started after four bodies were found in the Mathare Area Four slum yesterday morning.
The violence took place a day before the Supreme Court rules on two cases seeking to nullify the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta in a repeat election held last month.
Odinga, who successfully petitioned against Kenyatta’s initial victory in the August 8 vote and subsequently boycotted the repeat poll, visited the scene of the murders yesterday and accused the government of being behind the killings.
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