Kenyan police fire at mourners as violence erupts at viewing of body of ex-PM

The body of Kenya’s former prime minister Raila Odinga arrives in Nairobi, Kenya (Andrew Kasuku/AP)

Kenyan police opened fire on Thursday, killing two people as they tried to control a crowd of mourners gathered for a public viewing of the body of former prime minister Raila Odinga, an influential politician who died a day earlier in India, officials said.

The country’s head of police operations Adamson Bungei confirmed the shooting at the 60,000-capacity football stadium in the capital Nairobi, where the viewing was to take place ahead of the funeral over the weekend.