The death toll from protests in Kenya has soared to 13, an increase from the Five reported barely 24hrs ago, according to a disclosure made by an official from the main doctors’ association.
“So far, we have at least 13 people killed, but this is not the final number,” Simon Kigondu, president of the Kenya Medical Association said.
He said he had never seen “such level of violence against unarmed people.”
At the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi on Wednesday, an official said medics were treating “160 people… some of them with soft tissue injuries, some of them with bullet wounds”.
The primarily youth-led rallies, which began mostly peacefully last week, saw thousands of demonstrators marching in the capital Nairobi and across Kenya against the tax increases.
However, tensions escalated on Tuesday afternoon when police fired live rounds at the crowds, leading to the ransacking of the parliament complex.
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