Raila Odinga, former Prime Minister of Kenya, dies in Kerala

Former Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga died at the age of 80 on Wednesday at a hospital in Kerala’s Ernakulam district, where he was undergoing treatment for an eye-related ailment, police said.

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, the presidential candidate of the NASA coalition speaks during an interview in Nairobi. (REUTERS)

Odinga collapsed while out for a morning walk within the hospital premises on Wednesday morning, according to an official at the Sreedhariyam Ayurvedic Eye Hospital and Research Centre in Koothattukulam, where he had been undergoing treatment for the past six days.