A second opposition lawmaker was shot dead Thursday in Kenya, police said, amid spiralling unrest sparked by disputed presidential elections more than one month ago.
  
"He was killed by a traffic police officer," in a suburb of Eldoret in western Kenya, a police commander told AFP in Nairobi, adding that the killing appeared to be connected to a romantic dispute.
  
"He was with a girl who is a police officer. He was shot by another policeman believed to be her boyfriend," he said.
  
Police said the lawmaker was David Kiumtai Too, from the party of opposition leader Raila Odinga, who claims President Mwai Kibaki cheated him of victory in widely-contested December 27 polls.
  
Another Orange Democratic Movement lawmaker, Melitus Mugabe Were, was shot dead early Tuesday in Nairobi.
  
Odinga accused his political "adversaries" of having a hand in that killing, which sparked further bloodshed in flashpoint western regions and the capital's slums.
  
With the toll from the post-poll violence nearing 1,000 and close to 300,000 people displaced, representatives of Kibaki and Odinga met Thursday for the first time together in Nairobi with former UN chief Kofi Annan.

 
  
World leaders urge Kenya factions to end Bloodshed 

  

As post-election violence continues, UN chief Ban Ki-moon and African leaders gathered in Ethiopia on Thursday urged Kenya's leaders to act responsibly and do their utmost to end the bloodshed.
  
"Kenyan leader President (Mwai) Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga ... have a special responsibility to solve the crisis peacefully," said Ban.
  
He lent his full support to his predecessor Kofi Annan, currently in Kenya to broker a political deal to end the crisis that erupted over Kibaki's December 30 re-election.
  
The African Union's commission chairman, Alpha Oumar Konare, also appealed for swift action to end the bloodshed in the usually stable east African nation, which has claimed around 1,000 lives in a month.
  
"Kenya means so much to us that today there is an emergency to douse the flames," he said.
  
"We tell all the protagonists to stop, stop, stop. If you burn Kenya, what will be left for you to govern," he said in his opening address, which was attended by the 76-year-old Kibaki.
  
Japan, a special guest of the summit and represented by former prime minister Yoshiro Mori, also voiced its concern over the spiraling crisis in Kenya, a key nation on the continent and east Africa's largest economy.
  
He urged Kibaki and Odinga to "work together with the African Union and the international community to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict."
  
Mori pledged 4.1 million dollars (2.8 million euros) in assistance to Kenya, where at least a quarter of a million people have been displaced by the political violence and ethnic cleansing.
  
Kibaki is accused by Odinga of rigging his way to re-election, sparking a wave of riots, protests, police raids and tribal killings.
  
Odinga's movement had warned that Kibaki's presence in the ranks of the heads of state would amount to a recognition of his election, despite widespread international concerns over flaws in the December 27 polls.