(bbc) Five people have been shot dead in Kenya as opposition leader Raila Odinga made a renewed call for international mediation to end post-poll bloodshed. The deaths of two men and three women in a Rift Valley village was linked by police to the ongoing political crisis. On a visit to a prayer service in Kisumu, Mr Odinga said he was willing to meet President Mwai Kibaki but only if Kofi Annan joined them. The former UN secretary general is expected in Kenya on Tuesday. He will attempt to find a way to end the crisis that has claimed more than 650 lives and left a quarter of a million people homeless. Mr Odinga addressed supporters on Monday at an inter-denominational service, held to remember victims of the bloodshed, at the main stadium in his western stronghold of Kisumu.

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