Kenya's opposition accused police of shooting dead seven people today during a second day of clashes with demonstrators over President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
Kenyan soldiers open fire on protesters during clashes in the Mathari slums yesterday.
In the capital Nairobi and the western towns of Kisumu and Eldoret, police fired teargas and bullets on the second of three days of banned rallies called by opposition leader Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).
Mr Odinga, who accuses Mr Kibaki of stealing victory in the December 27th ballot, said police shot dead seven people in Nairobi.
"Police are shooting innocent civilians at will . . . the government has turned this country into a killing field of innocents," Mr Odinga said.
In the past, police have said that its officers have shot ODM supporters engaged in looting.
In three weeks since the vote, violence pitting police against protesters and opposition gangs against tribes seen as pro-Kibaki has killed some 620.
A quarter of a million people, mostly from Mr Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe, have been turned into refugees in the turmoil set off by a vote that foreign observers say fell short of democratic standards.
In the Kibera slum in Mr Odinga's Nairobi constituency, it was reported people had hijacked a train passing through and were stealing its cargo.
In the Rift valley town of Eldoret, police chasing protesters fired teargas into the emergency wing of the main hospital, striking a security guard, a hospital official said.