Kenyan Wire
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Multimedia University students blocked Magadi Road towards Ongata Rongai, Kajiado County on Monday in protests over the death of their colleague, Lameck Wambui Mwangi.
Mwangi, a second-year student in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology, was found dead on March 9 in what authorities suspect was a hit-and-run accident.
The students who engaged police in running battles after barricading the road and paralyzig ttansport for the better part of the morning blamed the accident on the newly surfaced road which lacks markings and speed bumps.
Motorists were locked out as the standoff between students and police officers escalated, with tear gas being used to disperse the crowd.