At least one
protester was
shot dead in a rally against
the IEBC in
Kisumu on Monday, hospital officials said.
Dennis Onyango, spokesman for opposition leader Raila Odinga who led Monday's rally in Nairobi, said two people were killed in Kisumu. But hospital officials said they only knew of one.
Juliana Otieno, superintendent at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital, said 12 casualties with bullet wounds had been admitted to her hospital.
She said Kisumu County hospital reported one dead and others with bullet wounds. A nurse at Kisumu hospital also confirmed one dead there.
Police had fired into the air to break up a crowd trying to march to the electoral body's office in the county, one witness told Reuters.
Protesters accusing the commission of pro-government bias are demanding its members resign before elections in August 2017..
They blocked roads with burning tyres in Migori, Kisumu and Nairobi's Kibera slum. "IEBC must go," demonstrators shouted.
There was no immediate police comment on the reported deaths.
But a witness said a man's body was lying on Oginga Odinga Street, and had a bullet wound in his chest.
Protestors carried the body from the vicinity of
Imperial
hotel and dumped it on the street.
One other person who was critically injured was rushed to Kisumu district hospital with a bullet wound in the stomach.
The protesters, who lit bonfires on the road, engaged police in running battles as they took over the town.
"Today the protesters are more than expected," the witness said.
One vehicle was torched as police
shot in the air to disperse the protesters.
The countrywide protests saw hundreds of
Kibera youths
carry crude weapons, stones in sacks and sufurias.
On Thika Superhighway in Nairobi,
youths from Mathare threw stones at vehicles, forcing motorists to look for alternative routes.
The
to stop the protests but
compelled IG Joseph Boinnet to provide security and ensure public safety .
Cord supporters defied a police ban on anti-IEBC protests and have taken to the streets in various counties, .
Police had banned today's protests Cord leaders
insisting IEBC chairman Issack Hassan and his team of commissioners must leave.
Story updated