NAIROBI - Hundreds of university students marched through the streets of the Kenyan capital yesterday in a second day of protests over the suspected murder of a student leader.
Nairobi University, Kenya's biggest with an estimated 19,000 students, was ordered closed indefinitely by authorities.
Groups of students held mostly peaceful protests, singing solemn songs in memory of Solomon Muruli who was torn apart by an explosion in his campus bedroom early on Sunday.
"Given the events of recent months, students believe Muruli was murdered," said a student who identified himself only as Leonard. "The explosion ripped his room apart. He was the only fatal victim on the whole floor.
Senior police officers declined comment about Muruli's death and the student protests. Muruli's room on the sixth floor of Kimberly hostel at Nairobi University's Kikuyu Campus, 30 km from the city centre, was sealed off by police.