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As riots rocked Kisumu Town, victims of police brutality recounted the harrowing experiences from their hospital beds.
PATRICK OTIENO
The 10-year-old boy was on his way back home in Nyawita estate when a police bullet caught his left thigh.
The Standard Five pupil at Kudho Primary School had just delivered a consignment of mandazis (buns) to his step-mother at Kondele market when the incident occurred.
"I had just run away from Kondele market where there was chaos everywhere. Stones were flying and I couldn't bear it. But my flight was curtailed by a policeman who accosted me just metres from home and shot me."
SABINA ATIENO
The 22-year-old woman had just opened the tailoring business she runs with her sister at Malo Malo tailoring shop within Kondele trading centre when a group of men with police officers in hot pursuit passed outside the shop.
Moments later, a policeman burst inside and asked to know what they were doing there when there was chaos everywhere.
She said the officer opened fire in full view of her sister who begged him not to shoot them.
COLLINS ODUOR
The 22-year-old store-keeper in Kondele was arranging bags of maize in his employer's store. He heard gunshots outside and when he stepped out to see what was going on, he was shot.
JOSHUA JUMA
The 44-year-old employee of Ketepa Tea packers Limited was returning to his house in Nyalenda estate, at 10am, when he bumped into a policeman near Western trading centre. "He shouted demanding to know where I was going.
"He shot me when I defied his order to turn back. The next thing I remember is l found myself in hospital."
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