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12-year-old among victims of police shooting during Eid meat donation chaos

A section view of IFO 2 refugee camp in Dadaab. [File, Standard]

Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, are nursing gunshot wounds at Garissa Referral Hospital after allegedly being shot by police officers during a meat donation scuffle at the Ifo refugee camp.

The victims-three refugees and a Kenyan working at the Kenya Red Cross Hospital-claim that police opened fire indiscriminately on crowds waiting to receive meat distributed following Eid al-Adha celebrations on Sunday.

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