MCA clobbered after 'ballot papers' impounded by youths

Iddy Baraka displaying the original forms 34A and 34 B that were impounded at Majengo in Vihiga County. They were being taken to Kisumu International Airport in bid for the forms to be airlifted to the Bomas of Kenya for announcement...Photo/Dancun Ocholla/Standard

One person was shot and at least 11 others, among them a Member of the County Assembly, were injured when they were caught up in a fracas between police and protesters.

Vihiga Police Station Deputy OCS Henry Recha, who rushed to the scene in civilian clothes, was also roughed up by police officers and seriously injured.