A Kenyan teen was fatally shot on his balcony as police opened fire to scatter people still on the streets after an imposed coronavirus curfew, according to a new report.

Yassin Hussein Moyo, 13, was standing on his third-floor balcony in a shantytown in Nairobi, watching as police used their batons to beat people who refused to abide by the curfew, when a police bullet struck him in the stomach, the Washington Post reported.

He bled to death.

“Yassin is short, so he climbed on a chair, held the rail on the balcony and started to look,” his mother, Khadija Abdullahi Hussein, told the paper. “I told the kids, ‘Don’t worry about the police, we are in the house. There is nothing wrong that we are doing.’ But one officer kept his flashlight pointed at us.”

“Yassin told me that he had been hit, and I told him to stop his jokes because he likes to joke a lot,” she told the outlet through tears at his Tuesday burial. “He said, ‘Mama, I am not lying, I have been shot. I swear I have been shot.’ ”

Nairobi police spokesman Charles Owino declined to comment to the paper, but the police inspector general said an investigation will take place.

Senior police official Philip Ndolo told Kenya’s Citizen TV that Yassin was “accidentally hit by a ricochet as police were trying to disperse a gang who had defied the curfew directive.”

A social worker in the neighborhood of Kiamaiko where the family lives told the paper she had spoken to the supervising officer for the community, who apologized for the incident.

“The question the community is asking, however, is why are you sending the police to come to the community with live bullets?” asked Faith Mumbe Kasina of the Kiamaiko Social Justice Center.

As of Tuesday, Kenya saw 59 confirmed coronavirus cases. Human Rights Watch said in a Tuesday report on the country’s crackdowns that the use of force by police may only hurt efforts to keep the virus at bay.

“It’s not likely we will see accountability for these excessive enforcement actions,” said the report, obtained by the Washington Post. “Kenyan police have a history of rights abuses, including during law enforcement operations, and the officers involved are rarely investigated or held to account.”