Demonstrators were protesting against legislation to raise taxes in country reeling from cost-of-living crisis
Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty ImagesPolice have opened fire on protesters outside Kenya’s parliament as they attempted to storm the building while MPs inside passed legislation to raise taxes.
A paramedic said at least 10 people had been killed and a Reuters journalist outside the parliament counted the bodies of at least five protesters. The demonstrators oppose tax rises in a country reeling from a cost-of-living crisis, and many are also calling for President William Ruto to step down. Protests and clashes also took place in other cities and towns across the country.
Kenyans have been struggling to cope with several economic shocks caused by the lingering impact of the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, two consecutive years of droughts and depreciation of the currency.
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