Death toll rises in Kenya post- election violence

Nine men and a child were fatally shot in Kenya as post-election violence escalated in isolated opposition strongholds after incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner Friday in presidential elections. A mortuary official who requested anonymity said nine bodies with gunshot wounds were transported to the morgue in the capital of Nairobi from Mathare, […]

Nine men and a child were fatally shot in Kenya as post-election violence escalated in isolated opposition strongholds after incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner Friday in presidential elections.

A mortuary official who requested anonymity said nine bodies with gunshot wounds were transported to the morgue in the capital of Nairobi from Mathare, a stronghold of opposition candidate Raila Odinga. A security official who did not want to be named also told Reuters the bodies had arrived.

Mathare resident Wycliff Mokaya told the AP his 9-year-old daughter was killed by a stray bullet on their balcony.

Leonard Katana, a regional police commander, told AP yesterday that police shot and killed two people during riots on the outskirts of Kisumu, a city where Odinga has strong support. Katana said another five people were injured by gunfire in Kisumu.

Gunshots rang out in Nairobi’s biggest slum, Kibera, as well as in other poor areas of the capital and in the western city of Kisumu. Witnesses say police fired tear gas in the Nairobi slum of Mathare and said police helicopters flew overhead.