A man was shot and killed by Kenyan police outside the US embassy in the capital Nairobi on Thursday after stabbing an officer with a knife. "The man was shot after stabbing a GSU officer in the hand and left him with injuries," said local police chief Vitalis Otieno. The police officer involved in the shooting was a member of the paramilitary General Services Unit (GSU) deployed to guard the embassy. He was said to be "in good condition" in hospital.
Otieno said the dead man was a 24-year-old Kenyan from Wajir in the country's north-east close to the border with Somalia, but did not give a name. According to police the man had been walking towards the US embassy and was close to the public entrance to the visa section when he attempted to grab a gun from one of the officers. A scuffle ensued during which the man reportedly pulled out a knife and stabbed one officer before being shot in the head by another.
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