Dozens were injured, many seriously, at the state funeral of Kenya’s revered opposition leader Raila Odinga on Friday as crowds rushed to see his coffin, AFP journalists saw.

It came a day after at least three people were killed when security forces opened fire to disperse a crowd that had gathered to see Odinga’s body in a separate ceremony.

The 80-year-old died from a suspected heart attack at a health clinic in southern India on Wednesday, triggering a huge outpouring of grief for a man known affectionately as “Baba” (father) by many Kenyans.

“He walked among us as a man but also charged among us as a movement for change, a movement for justice… for a better and greater Kenya,” President William Ruto told the crowd gathered at Nairobi’s Nyayo stadium for the funeral on Friday.

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