Kenya riot leaves three dead
2005-10-29 19:48
Kisumu - At least three people, including a school boy, were shot dead and dozens wounded in western Kenya on Saturday as security forces tackled a riot over the country's bitterly disputed proposed constitution, police and medical sources said.
Riot police opened fire on the disturbance in Kisumu on the shores of Lake Victoria while dispersing hundreds of youths who had attempted to stop a rally by four cabinet ministers who support the draft, they said.
"We received two casualties already dead, among them an eight-year-old-school boy," said Juliana Otieno, the medical superintendent of Kisumu's Nyanza Provincial Hospital.
"Another patient in his teens died in our hospital while undergoing treatment for gunshot wounds," she added.