Kenyan lawmaker shot dead in apparent assassination in Nairobi

A Kenyan opposition legislator was shot dead in the capital Nairobi in what police have described as a “targeted and premeditated” crime.

MP Charles Were was shot on Wednesday night after his car stopped at a roundabout on a busy major road.

President William Ruto urged police to conduct a “thorough investigation” and said Thursday that those responsible “must be held to account.”

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