Thousands of Kenyans took to the streets to commemorate last year's demonstrations, in which more than 60 people died, with police firing tear gas and water cannon to disperse them in the capital Nairobi, according to local media and a Reuters witness.

It was not immediately clear who had shot them, and Kenyan police spokesperson Muchiri Nyaga declined to comment on the injuries.

Some protesters clashed with police, and an official at the capital's main Kenyatta National Hospital said the facility had received dozens of wounded people.

"As at 1600 hours, 56 patients had been admitted at KNH from the protest related injuries. Majority had rubber bullet injuries," the hospital source told Reuters, adding that no deaths had been reported at KNH.

The source and Kenya's Citizen Television had earlier reported that at least 10 people were hospitalised.

Large crowds were seen heading in the direction of State House, the president's office, in scenes broadcast by Kenyan channel NTV before it was pulled off the air after defying an order to stop live broadcasts of the demonstrations.

The Communications Authority of Kenya's order was condemned by the Kenya Editors Guild, which called it "a gross violation of the Constitution."

"We have been switched off from all the signal broadcasters, now we are only live on YouTube and the website," a senior official at NTV's parent Nation Media Group told Reuters.

Kenyan broadcaster KTN was also taken off air, it said on its Telegram channel, adding that it would continue to offer live coverage on YouTube, Facebook, and X.

--Reuters--