Opposition supporters throw rocks and set fire to what they said was a government vehicle in Kisumu, Kenya, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008, following the shooting of Kenyan opposition lawmaker David Too by a police officer in Eldoret. Within minutes of the news reaching the opposition stronghold of Kisumu gangs of men armed themselves with machetes, set up burning barricades, businesses shut down and workers began to flee from the town center.
An opposition supporter scrapes a machete along the road next to a burning vehicle set on fire in Kisumu, Kenya, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008, following the shooting of Kenyan opposition lawmaker David Too by a police officer in Eldoret. Within minutes of the news reaching the opposition stronghold of Kisumu gangs of men armed themselves with machetes, set up burning barricades, businesses shut down and workers began to flee from the town center.
A man accused of harassing girls during the chaos, center-left, is helped by another man, center-right, to escape a mob trying to attack him in Kisumu, Kenya, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008, following the shooting of Kenyan opposition lawmaker David Too by a police officer in Eldoret. Within minutes of the news reaching the opposition stronghold of Kisumu gangs of men armed themselves with machetes, set up burning barricades, businesses shut down and workers began to flee from the town center.
A woman runs away as a mob mainly from the Luo tribe searches a bus for Kikuyus in Kisumu, Kenya, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008, following the shooting of Kenyan opposition lawmaker David Too by a police officer in Eldoret. Within minutes of the news reaching the opposition stronghold of Kisumu gangs of men armed themselves with machetes, set up burning barricades, businesses shut down and workers began to flee from the town center.
Internally displaced Kenyans from the Luo tribe, receive food from aid organizations as they gather around the Limuru police station, in Limuru, near Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday Jan. 31, 2008. An opposition lawmaker was shot and killed by a police officer in the Rift Valley Thursday, the second opposition lawmaker to be killed this week in a country that has been gripped by ethnic fighting since last month's disputed presidential election.
A man who was shot by police during civil unrest lies unconscious in a ward of the local hospital in the western Kenyan town of Kisumu 31 January 2008. Violent clashes erupted in the western town and nearby Kericho and Kisumu, with police firing tear gas on protesters who were blocking roads and lighting fires after David Kimutai Too from opposition leader Raila Odinga's opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) was killed by a traffic policeman, describing the incident as a crime of passion unrelated to the recent political violence.
Members of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) look at the body of David Kimutai Too, from opposition leader Raila Odinga's opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), who was killed by a traffic policeman in Eldoret 31 January 2008. The body was flown to Kenya's capital Nairobi. The police described the incident as a crime of passion unrelated to the recent political violence but violent clashes soon erupted in the western town and nearby Kericho and Kisumu, with police firing tear gas on protesters who were blocking roads and lighting fires.
A man who was shot by police during civil unrest lies unconscious in a ward of the local hospital in the western Kenyan town of Kisumu 31 January 2008. Violent clashes erupted in the western town and nearby Kericho and Kisumu, with police firing tear gas on protesters who were blocking roads and lighting fires after David Kimutai Too from opposition leader Raila Odinga's opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) was killed by a traffic policeman, describing the incident as a crime of passion unrelated to the recent political violence
Women take cover under some market stalls as a group of members of the Luo tribe and supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga threw rocks on a road in the western Kenyan town of Kisumu, 31 January 2008. Violent clashes erupted in the western town and nearby Kericho and Kisumu, with police firing tear gas on protesters who were blocking roads and lighting fires after David Kimutai Too from opposition leader Raila Odinga's opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) was killed by a traffic policeman, describing the incident as a crime of passion unrelated to the recent political violence
Residents from the western Kenyan town of Kisumu run from stone throwing youths 31 January 2008. Violent clashes erupted in Kisumu and Kericho, with police firing tear gas on protesters who were blocking roads and lighting fires after the murder of David Kimutai Too from opposition leader Raila Odinga's opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), killed by a traffic policeman in an incident described by the police as a crime of passion unrelated to the recent political violence.
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