A pupil is among Eight people admitted at Karatina Level IV Hospital with gun wounds sustained from Thursday’s Nane Nane protest in Karatina.
Nyeri County Director of Medical Services Dr Nelson Muriu confirmed that those admitted include two victims in critical condition who had gun wounds on the abdomen and the chest.
He revealed that the rest of the victims sustained gub shots in the legs after police allegedly used live bullets to quell the protests.
Further, Muriu stated that the Department of Health had mobilized medics to attend to the patients in the theatre.
“It’s true we have eight patients brought in with gun wounds one of them has [been] shot in the abdomen and the other in the chest,” he said.
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This is after business came to a standstill in Karatina after the protestors stormed the town centre in the afternoon contesting President William Ruto’s choice of Cabinet.
Ensuing chaos saw the Nyeri-Nairobi highway blocked as police battled protestors.
The protest in Nyeri came amid calm in most parts of the country except Nairobi, where the police made at least 200 protest-related arrests.
