FILE PHOTO: Lenzer, mother of six month-old Samantha Pendo, speaks to Reuters as her daughter remains in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu, Kenya August 13, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan government watchdog will investigate whether police killed a baby and a young girl during a crackdown on post-election demonstrations this week, it said on Wednesday.
The parents of six-month-old Samantha Pendo said she was asleep in her mother's arms when she was teargassed and clubbed by police who invaded their home in the western city of Kisumu looking for protesters.[
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