Journalist who left Pakistan to avoid arrest shot dead in Kenya

Senior Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was killed in Kenya (AP)

A senior Pakistani journalist living in hiding in Kenya was shot and killed by police after the car he was in sped up instead of stopping at a road block near Nairobi, police said.

Kenyan police expressed regret over the incident, saying it was a case of “mistaken identity” during a search for a similar car involved in a case of child abduction.