The fatality was in Kisumu, a stronghold of opposition leader Raila Odinga who’s boycotting the poll necessitated by the Supreme Court annulling the August election won by President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Amnesty International’s calling on Kenyan police to show restraint in dealing with protestors against today’s re-run election.

The police have been engaged in running battles  with crowds that have blocked access to polling stations and frightened off electoral staff in the western city of Kisumu and the largely informal giant settlement  of Kibera in the capital Nairobi.

In government supporting areas, there has been voting but at a much lower rate than experienced in the August election.

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