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Cops lob gas at ODM funeral

The Times : "NAIROBI - Kenyan police lobbed around 10 tear gas canisters today at a funeral prayer held in Nairobi for victims of last week’s protests and attended by opposition leader Raila Odinga, an AFP correspondent reported.
Police fired the tear gas as hundreds of supporters of Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) had gathered for the funeral mass, and after clashes broke out between a small group of protesters and security forces."

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