At least two people were killed in Kenya on Thursday when police opened fire on mourners who had turned out in their thousands to catch a glimpse of the coffin of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga.
Odinga died on Wednesday, aged 80, after collapsing during a morning walk in a hospital in the Indian state of Kerala. A former Prime Minister, Odinga was one of Kenya’s leading politicians.
Thousands of mourners briefly stormed Nairobi’s international airport, disrupting the ceremony for President William Ruto and other officials to receive Odinga’s body with military honors.
The crowd also flooded nearby streets and tried to breach Parliament, where the government had originally scheduled a public demonstration.
The 60,000-capacity football stadium was filled with mourners when security forces fired live rounds into the air in an attempt to control the crowd.
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Edited by: Roshni Majumdar