Kenya protests leave dozens hospitalised, many with bullet wounds
Kenya on Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of deadly protests against a tax bill, a hospital source 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 cannon to disperse them in the capital Nairobi, according to local media and a Reuters witness.
It was not immediately clear who had shot them, and Kenyan police spokesperson Muchiri Nyaga declined to comment on the injuries.
Some protesters clashed with police, and an official at the capital's main Kenyatta National Hospital said the facility had received dozens of wounded people.
Protestors gather next to riot police in Mombasa, Kenya on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters
'As at 4pm, 56 patients had been admitted at KNH from the protest related injuries. Majority had rubber bullet injuries,' the hospital source said, adding that no deaths had been reported at KNH.
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