News 2008

 

Riots erupt in Kenya's Kisumu, police fire in air



Mon 28 Jan 2008, 6:07 GMT



KISUMU, Kenya, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Police fired teargas and bullets in the air on Monday in the western town of Kisumu where protests erupted over the killings during the weekend of people in Kenya's Rift Valley, residents said.

Several thousand pro-opposition demonstrators took to the streets to complain about the deaths of members of their Luo ethnic community in the towns of Nakuru and Naivasha in violence there since Friday, witnesses said.

 

(Reporting by Guled Mohamed; Writing by Andrew Cawthorne)

 

 

 

 

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