Kenyan riot police officers on horseback chase photographers in central Nairobi, Kenya, yesterday. Police fired tear gas and bullets to disperse protesters in several Kenyan cities at the start of three days of opposition rallies that threatened to plunge the nation's streets back into postelection violence. At least one person died. - AP

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP):

Police fired tear gas and bullets to disperse protesters in several Kenyan cities at the start of three days of opposition rallies that edged tensions higher in the East African nation's post-election crisis. At least one person was fatally shot by police and half a dozen others were wounded.

Opposition leader Raila Odinga, who charges he was robbed of the presidency through vote rigging in last month's election, called the protests nationwide despite a government ban.

Most of the protests had fizzled by dusk. Mobs hurled rocks at police in one Nairobi slum and the western town of Kisumu, but rallies elsewhere did not degenerate into serious clashes and in most cases were broken up by police.