Shooting, tear gas, bonfires mar repeat presidential polls in some opposition bastions

Police  lob teargas at protesters in Nairobi's Olympic Primary School polling station. (Photo: Jenipher Wachie/Standard)

The Opposition supporters clashed with police and threw up burning barricades on Thursday to challenge the legitimacy of an election rerun likely to return Uhuru Kenyatta as president of East Africa’s chief economic and political powerhouse.

In the western city of Kisumu, stone-throwing youths heeding opposition leader Raila Odinga’s call for a voter boycott were met by live rounds, tear gas and water cannon. There were no immediate reports of casualties and Reuters found no polling stations open.