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Urgent: One dead, scores injured in anti-electoral body protests in Kenya

Xinhua, May 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

One person was killed and scores injured in Kenya during countrywide protests to press for the removal of the top electoral body, officials and witnesses said on Monday.

The security officers fired teargas and beat opposition protesters in the capital Nairobi and other counties with truncheons during the demonstrations called by opposition leaders to press for the removal of Independent Electoral and Boundary Commission (IEBC)'s top officials. Endit