At least five people have died after Kenyan police opened
fire at supporters of a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric notorious for preaching
racial hatred.
Police also fired tear gas at hundreds of stone-throwing protesters calling for Abdullah al-Faisal to be freed.
Faisal is in detention in Nairobi after Kenya failed to deport him.
Kenya wants to expel him citing his "terrorist history".
He was jailed for four years in the UK for soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus.
An unnamed senior police officer told an international news agency that five people had died, while one of the protest organisers said that seven people had lost their lives.
Hospital sources have confirmed that one person has died, while seven others sustained bullet wounds.
Doctors say their lives are not in danger.
At least four police officers have been hospitalised.
Muslim youths began the protest match after Friday prayers at the Jamia Mosque in the centre of Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Faisal was deported from Britain in 2007 for preaching racial hatred and urging his audiences to kill Jews, Hindus and westerners.
He was arrested in Kenya two weeks ago.
Efforts to deport him to Jamaica failed after several countries denied him in-transit visas and airlines also refused to transport him to countries who would allow him to pass through.
Police also fired tear gas at hundreds of stone-throwing protesters calling for Abdullah al-Faisal to be freed.
Faisal is in detention in Nairobi after Kenya failed to deport him.
Kenya wants to expel him citing his "terrorist history".
He was jailed for four years in the UK for soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus.
An unnamed senior police officer told an international news agency that five people had died, while one of the protest organisers said that seven people had lost their lives.
Hospital sources have confirmed that one person has died, while seven others sustained bullet wounds.
Doctors say their lives are not in danger.
At least four police officers have been hospitalised.
Muslim youths began the protest match after Friday prayers at the Jamia Mosque in the centre of Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Faisal was deported from Britain in 2007 for preaching racial hatred and urging his audiences to kill Jews, Hindus and westerners.
He was arrested in Kenya two weeks ago.
Efforts to deport him to Jamaica failed after several countries denied him in-transit visas and airlines also refused to transport him to countries who would allow him to pass through.
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