{"id":12987,"date":"2025-10-17T06:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/at-least-two-shot-dead-in-kenya-after-odingas-body-repatriated\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:09","slug":"four-dead-after-kenyan-forces-fire-shots-teargas-to-disperse-crowds-at-odinga-viewing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/four-dead-after-kenyan-forces-fire-shots-teargas-to-disperse-crowds-at-odinga-viewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Four dead after Kenyan forces fire shots, teargas to disperse crowds at Odinga viewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Odinga, a major figure for decades in Kenyan politics who was once a political prisoner and ran unsuccessfully for President five times, died on Wednesday, aged 80, in India, where he had been receiving medical treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With thousands of his supporters on the streets from early morning, chaos erupted when a huge crowd breached a gate of Nairobi&#8217;s main stadium, prompting soldiers to fire in the air, a <em>Reuters<\/em> witness said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A police source told <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reuters<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> that two people were shot dead at the stadium. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">KTN News<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Citizen TV<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> later said the death toll had increased to four, with scores of people injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After security forces fired shots, police lobbed tear gas to disperse thousands of mourners, the two broadcasters showed, leaving the stadium deserted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Earlier in the day, thousands of mourners briefly stormed Nairobi&#8217;s international airport, interrupting a ceremony for President William Ruto and other officials to receive Odinga&#8217;s body with military honours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13043,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-12987","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Four people were killed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Thursday after security forces fired shots and teargas to disperse huge crowds at a stadium where the body of deceased opposition leader Raila Odinga was lying in state, local media reported.||Four people were killed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Thursday after security forces fired shots and teargas to disperse huge crowds at a stadium where the body of deceased opposition leader Raila Odinga was lying in state, local media reported.","published_date":"2025-10-16 18:35:18||2025-10-16 18:35:18","news_description":"Four people were killed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Thursday after security forces fired shots and teargas to disperse huge crowds at a stadium where the body of deceased opposition leader Raila Odinga was lying in state, local media reported.||Four people were killed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Thursday after security forces fired shots and teargas to disperse huge crowds at a stadium where the body of deceased opposition leader Raila Odinga was lying in state, local media reported.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27162,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12987\/revisions\/27162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}