Man beaten up for not wearing his mask dies

Sella Akinyi, with the portrait of her husband, Maurice Ochieng who died on Monday, five days after being beaten by police for not wearing a mask at Hollo market, Kisumu. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

A 40-year-old man has died five days after he was beaten up by police for not wearing a mask.

Maurice Ochieng’, a carpenter, was on Monday evening pronounced dead on arrival at Kombewa Hospital in Kisumu, where he was taken after he collapsed at his workshop at Holo market.