Kenyan Protester Killed at Demonstration Against US Ebola Facility

Kenyan police shot dead ?a protester as hundreds of people staged new demonstrations on Tuesday against a quarantine centre in Kenya for Americans exposed to Ebola, ?eyewitnesses and a protest leader told media

Patrick Wahome, who has helped organise protests in the central town of Nanyuki against the facility, and multiple eyewitnesses at the scene said the man died from a gunshot wound to the head. 

Two reporters, who did not witness the shooting themselves, saw the body



lying motionless with a large wound ?to the head in the back of a police van.

A police spokesperson said he did not have information about the incident. "Hooded police ?officers.... fired live bullets and arbitrarily arrested 19 protesters," the non-profit Kenya Human Rights Commission said in a statement ?posted on its X account late on Tuesday. 

Officers attacked protesters and journalists, the statement added. Media could not independently verify the claims made by the ?NGO.