Tear gas is fired as cost-of-living demonstrators barricade roads and hurl stones.
By Basillioh Rukanga & Anthony IrunguKenya has closed schools in the country's two main cities as a three-day opposition protest kicks off with demonstrators confronting police.
The opposition called for a series of protests after tax hikes were introduced last month by the government of President William Ruto.The police chief has said the protests are a threat to national security and has deployed riot officers across the country. Christine Wema, the director of Migori's Oruba nursing home, told the BBC that two men had been brought into the facility with leg injuries, probably caused by rubber bullets used by the police
The two sides had agreed to hold talks earlier in the year, but the opposition said Mr Ruto's team was not committed to resolving their complaints.
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