Thousands of mourners briefly stormed Nairobi’s international airport on Thursday, interrupting a ceremony for the body of veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga, with crowds also flooding nearby roads and trying to breach parliament.

Odinga, a major figure for decades in Kenyan politics who was once a political prisoner and ran unsuccessfully for president five times, died on Wednesday aged 80 in India where he had been receiving medical treatment.

With Odinga’s supporters taking to the streets in his honor, President William Ruto and other officials went to the airport to receive his body with military honors.

Odinga's coffin being carried by members of the Kenya Defence Forces. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

But as the coffin was being removed from the plane’s cargo, mourners waving twigs

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