A man has been shot dead during protests in the Kenyan town of Emali, some 100km (62 miles) from the capital Nairobi, according to multiple reports in local media.
The Daily Nation newspaper says that police opened fire on protesters who reportedly set fire to a police vehicle and threw stones at a local bank.
Emali sits on the Nairobi-to-Mombasa highway. The K24 website reports that hundreds of protesters there barricaded the road on Wednesday morning,
bringing traffic to a standstill.
These oppositions protests have gone ahead despite police declaring them illegal.
Neither the police nor the local authorities have commented on the protester’s death.
Source:BBC
