Brutality: Girl, 10, among people killed in protests

Police patrol the streets of Kibera in Nairobi on August 12, 2017 where they were battling youths who were protesting following IEBC’s declaration of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election in the just-concluded general elections. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

A 10-year-old girl was among people killed after police moved in to quell protests staged by perceived opposition supporters against the re-election of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.

The Standard Four pupil at Mathare Primary School, was said to have been playing with other children outside her parents’ home in Nairobi’s slum neighbourhood, Mathare North Area 2, when a bullet hit her chest and exited through the back.