Teenager Killed as Kenyan Police and Protesters Clash Over Defiance of Court Order on Ebola Centre

Seventeen-year-old Sylvester Muigai Ndung'u was killed Tuesday in Nanyuki during clashes between police and demonstrators protesting a planned 50-bed Ebola quarantine centre at Laikipia Air Base. Lucy Kagure found her son's body at a mortuary in Nanyuki two days after he left home to collect his school uniform from an aunt.

She said half of his head had been split open and his clothes were soaked in blood.

Witnesses said he had been shot in the head. Local police commander Daniel Kitavi told the BBC that authorities were still waiting for a post-mortem to determine the cause of death. Family members said police officers suggested the teenager may have been killed by a tear-gas canister rather than a bullet.

Kagure said police used too much force during the protests. 70) a day doing casual work and raised her son from nursery school to form three as a single mother. Muigai is the third person to have died amid protests against the planned isolation unit.

U.S. citizens affected by the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Last month the High Court ordered the opening of the facility halted after a rights group filed a case alleging it posed grave and imminent risks to public health.

Satellite imagery seen by the BBC shows construction has continued at the airbase despite the court order. U.S. official said last week the administration was aware of the court case but optimistic objections could be resolved.

U.S. to establish the centre and a refusal would be inhuman. On Tuesday demonstrators had planned a peaceful march to deliver a petition calling for the facility to be relocated.