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| Scores dead in Kenya poll clashes | Scores dead in Kenya poll clashes |
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| At least 43 people have been killed in the western Kenyan town of Kisumu after violence blamed on the disputed presidential election. | At least 43 people have been killed in the western Kenyan town of Kisumu after violence blamed on the disputed presidential election. |
| A BBC reporter saw the bodies with gunshot wounds in a morgue in the opposition stronghold. | A BBC reporter saw the bodies with gunshot wounds in a morgue in the opposition stronghold. |
| Witnesses say the police fired live bullets after protesters threw stones, claiming fraud in last week's poll. | Witnesses say the police fired live bullets after protesters threw stones, claiming fraud in last week's poll. |
| President Mwai Kibaki has been declared the winner but Raila Odinga says he was robbed of victory. | President Mwai Kibaki has been declared the winner but Raila Odinga says he was robbed of victory. |
| There have also been violent clashes in slums in the capital, Nairobi, and the resort town of Mombasa. | |
| Reuters news agency reports that 15 bodies have been found in the Nairobi slum of Korogocho. | |
| Those killed in Kisumu include two women and three children, reports the BBC's Noel Mwakugu. | |
| An eye-witness told him that police fired indiscriminately even after the protesters started running away in the Kisumu suburbs of Manyatta and Nyamasira. |