NAIROBI, Jan 18 (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed on Friday in violence during opposition protests in Kenya over a disputed presidential election, witnesses and a senior official said.

Reuters journalists in Nairobi's Kibera slum, an opposition stronghold, said they saw four dead bodies after battles between protesters and police. Authorities in Narok, in southwest Kenya, said four died in ethnic clashes over the election.

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