NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan police opened fire Thursday, killing two people as they tried to control a crowd of mourners gathered for a public viewing of the body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, an influential politician who died a day earlier in India, officials said.

The country's head of police operations, Adamson Bungei, confirmed the shooting at the 60,000-capacity soccer stadium in the capital, Nairobi, where the viewing was to take place ahead of the funeral over the weekend.

“We have at least two deaths for now,” Bungei told The Associated Press, describing what happened as a “confrontation.”

It was not immediately clear what had ignited the violence.

Thousands of mourners had escorted Odinga's body from the country’s main airport, many walking for 29 kilometers (18 miles) t

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