NAIROBI: Thirty people have been killed and 16 injured early this morning in a head-on collision between a bus and a lorry on a street in central Kenya, police mentioned.
"We have 30 dead," mentioned Rift Valley visitors police chief Zero Arome of the 3am (local time) coincidence just about Nakuru the town. "All the bodies have been removed from the wreckage and injured people taken to hospital."
The coincidence passed off just about a notorious stretch at the Nakuru-Eldoret highway when a bus travelling from Busia, in western Kenya, collided with a truck coming from Nakuru. Police mentioned the demise toll for that reach of street has now reached 100 this month on my own.
Arome mentioned the drivers of both vehicles have been some of the dead, as well as a three-year-old child, whilst the injured had been taken to a Nakuru medical institution.
One survivor, speaking from his medical institution bed, mentioned he had been asleep in the back of the bus when the collision happened.
"All I heard was a loud bang and screams from all over," he mentioned. "I was seated at the back and was helped out after some time because my legs were stuck. It is by the grace of God that I am alive. I saw many people dead and their bodies mutilated."
Official statistics display that round three,000 people die yearly in street accidents in Kenya.
"We have 30 dead," mentioned Rift Valley visitors police chief Zero Arome of the 3am (local time) coincidence just about Nakuru the town. "All the bodies have been removed from the wreckage and injured people taken to hospital."
The coincidence passed off just about a notorious stretch at the Nakuru-Eldoret highway when a bus travelling from Busia, in western Kenya, collided with a truck coming from Nakuru. Police mentioned the demise toll for that reach of street has now reached 100 this month on my own.
Arome mentioned the drivers of both vehicles have been some of the dead, as well as a three-year-old child, whilst the injured had been taken to a Nakuru medical institution.
One survivor, speaking from his medical institution bed, mentioned he had been asleep in the back of the bus when the collision happened.
"All I heard was a loud bang and screams from all over," he mentioned. "I was seated at the back and was helped out after some time because my legs were stuck. It is by the grace of God that I am alive. I saw many people dead and their bodies mutilated."
Official statistics display that round three,000 people die yearly in street accidents in Kenya.
30 dead in central Kenya bus crash
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