# Hundreds of people have been killed in Tanzania during three days of protests following Wednesday’s general election. The country’s main opposition party Chadema told AFP news agency that “around 700” people had been killed in clashes with security forces, while a diplomatic source in Tanzania told the BBC there was credible evidence that at least 500 people had died. The demonstrations have seen mostly young protesters take to the streets in cities across Tanzania to denounce the election as unfair. They accuse the government of undermining democracy by suppressing the main opposition leaders.
Hundreds feared dead in Tanzania crackdown on election protests