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More than twenty people sustain gunshot wounds

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital Photo:Courtesy

Obunga slums, reverberated  with heavy gunfire  and sirens of ambulances as  police led  one of the biggest security operations  ever seen in Kisumu as death toll of  those  killed  across  Nyanza  rose  to three.

More than twenty people  sustained  serious  gunshot  wounds   and the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital could not  cope  with casualties as the ambulances made  endless  trios  to the slum where police were  breaking into houses  and beating helpless residents, including women, children.

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