Kenya police 'tear-gas nursery pupils' in Kisumu

At least 20 nursery school pupils in Kenya's western city of Kisumu are receiving treatment after police fired tear gas into the school.

The officers had been firing tear gas at protesters who had been complaining about the alleged refusal of the electoral commission to change the electoral system before the election re-run.

A school teacher said the children, some as young as two years old, were sleeping when the tear gas was fired into the school.

She said some of the children almost fell unconscious. 

The regions' police boss Leonard Katana said he was not aware of the attack on the pupils.

SOURCE: BBC NEWS
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