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NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 21 - A police officer who had been accused of extra-judicial killing during the 2008 post-election violence has been freed.

Edward Kirui who was based in Kisumu during the post 2007 election was acquitted by a Nairobi Court for lack of evidence linking him to the shooting of two protesters.

High Court judge Fred Ochieng ruled that the bullets found in the victims’ bodies did not match the gun used by the officer.

More than 1,300 Kenyans were killed during the skirmishes and over 500,000 were uprooted from their homes.