Police are currently attempting to intimidate and prevent the media from reporting on the protests in Nairobi’s Central Business District, while they are deploying water cannons and releasing an unidentified toxic orange gas to the demonstrators.
Anti-riot police response teams were sent to reinforce and disperse groups trying to burn Kware and Reuben police stations in Nairobi while bodies were recovered.
Just outside Gilanis supermarket, a woman coming out of the supermarket shot herself in the knee as police intensified the use of live ammunition against peaceful protesters.
Residents along Thika Road block traffic to use the taxpayer-funded infrastructure by playing football as others engage in a game of skipping rope.
All businesses in Nairobi CBD and other towns nationwide remain closed as of 15:00 p.m. EAT.
A live bullet shot a child in the leg, and the hospital is currently treating him. Police have begun using live ammunition in most towns as the number of anti-Ruto protesters increases.
There have been incidents of reckless gunfire across Nairobi CBD, where men in plainclothes and masks are present. The men also tried to forcibly abduct someone and shove him into a Subaru Outback.