Kenya: Police shoot in air, lob tear gas to disperse crowd baying for blood of suspects at Pangani police station - News Summed Up

Kenya: Police shoot in air, lob tear gas to disperse crowd baying for blood of suspects at Pangani police station


| Updated Sun, February 12th 2017 at 15:15 GMT +3Police were forced to shoot to the air and lob tear gas canisters at a crowd that had gathered outside Pangani police station baying for blood of three people who had been arrested with voter transfer forms. According to police, they recovered 81 photocopies of identification cards, one photocopy of a passport and 33 voter transfer forms. A resident of Eastleigh Mohamed Isak Ali claimed he walked to Maslah Lodge along 11th Street and witnessed the process of voter transfer go on Saturday evening. And as the three were being processed at the station, a crowd surged outside forcing police to shoot in the air to disperse them. IEBC said the three were arrested for being in possession of copies of voter transfer forms and not BVR kit as alleged.


Source: Standard Digital February 12, 2017 12:11 UTC



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