Coronavirus: Anger over excessive violence by Kenyan police

Calls for accountability grow after boy (13) shot dead during police crackdown

Kenyan police officers interrogate a man they found walking at night as they patrolled to enforce curfew in  one of the most densely populated parts of Nairobi on Tuesday. Photograph: Daniel Irungu/EPA

Kenyan police officers interrogate a man they found walking at night as they patrolled to enforce curfew in one of the most densely populated parts of Nairobi on Tuesday. Photograph: Daniel Irungu/EPA

After a 13-year-old boy bled to death from a police bullet in Kenya on Tuesday, calls are growing for the country’s police to be held accountable for violence they have used to enforce coronavirus-related restrictions.

Yassin Hussein Moyo died just after midnight on Tuesday morning, after being hit by stray gunfire on a third-floor balcony in the capital city of Nairobi.

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