Police reportedly shot and killed a 16-year-old Form Three student during the chaos that erupted in Nanyuki Town on Monday.
According to reports, aftter a two-day search for their kin, the family of Sylvester Muigai Ndung’u found his body at the Nanyuki Referral Hospital Mortuary.
The deceased, who was a student at Thingithu Secondary School, had been sent home to collect a Ksh5,700 fee balance.
Further reports indicate that on that fateful day, his mother asked Muigai not to go to the streets where the protests against the planned U.S. Ebola quarantine facility were in high gear.
A Form Three student was reportedly shot during the protests
However, speaking in an interview, a relative said Muigai was asked not to go to school because of the protests, as the demonstration had occupied the road used by students to get to school.
Muigai, the firstborn in a family of four, was among those who went to the streets at about 5:30pm as demonstrators gathered.
The protests soon descended into violent confrontations, with police and protesters engaged in running battles.
Amid the altercations, he was shot in the head and died instantly at the scene.
The demonstrations were as a result of a controversial, U.S.-backed plan to build a 50-bed Ebola quarantine facility at the Laikipia Airbase.
Residents around Nanyuki have so far neglected the idea claiming that it poses health risks in their lives.
