UN calls for probe on slain Kenyan activists

A U.N. official has called for an independent probe into the overnight killing of two Kenyan human rights activists in the Kenyan capital.

A student was shot dead in a riot sparked by the killings.

Philip Alston, the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, had met last month with the two activists killed overnight Thursday _ Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu _ in an investigation of police killings.

Kingara was the head of the Oscar Foundation, which had released a report on extrajudicial killings and the disappearance of thousands of Kenyans in police custody. Oulu was the foundation's communications and advocacy …