Eight deaths reported, over 400 injured in Kenya protests
Protesters scatter as police fire teargas at them during a demonstration in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, — At least eight people died and 400 were injured during nationwide anti-government protests in Kenya on Wednesday a year after deadly demonstrations against a tax bill, the national rights watchdog said.
Thousands of Kenyans took to the streets to commemorate last year’s demonstrations, in which more than 60 people died, with police firing tear gas and water cannons to disperse them in the capital Nairobi, according to local media and a Reuters witness.
