Kenya pre-election deaths

Reports from Kenya say at least two people were killed and several others injured over the weekend in the run-up to next week's general election.

The worst violence was on Saturdayin the western town of Kisumu, where police said a group of opposition supporters clashed with a gang of unidentified youths.

In Meru District in the east, one man was killed in a dispute over sharing money handed out by a parliamentary candidate.

In a third incident, in the north eastern town of Garissa, riot police were called in when armed supporters of the ruling KANU party attacked an opposition rally, injuring ten people. ().

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service