The driving force misplaced management of the bus in Kisumu, on a infamous part of street the place accidents are frequent.
A bus carrying mourners again dwelling from a funeral in southwestern Kenya has overturned and plunged right into a ditch, killing not less than 21 folks, police mentioned.
The bus was travelling from the western city of Kakamega to the town of Kisumu, the place the accident occurred.
The driving force misplaced management of the bus because it approached a roundabout at excessive velocity and plunged right into a ditch, in keeping with Peter Maina, a regional site visitors enforcement officer for the province of Nyanza, the place Kisumu is positioned.
“The automobile misplaced management, veered, rolled onto the opposite facet of the street,” he informed reporters on the scene.
“Amongst the 21 who misplaced their lives have been 10 girls, and a woman aged 10, and 10 males,” he mentioned.
5 folks have been critically damage within the incident, Maina mentioned, amongst them an eight-month-old child who was at the moment receiving care at a close-by hospital.
The reason for the crash was not clear and investigations have been ongoing. Native media reported the incident passed off on a infamous part of street the place collisions are frequent.
The lethal accident follows an plane crash close to the capital, Nairobi, on Thursday, when an air ambulance got here down in a residential space, killing six folks.
The identical day, native media reported {that a} collision between a practice and bus killed eight.
Street accidents are frequent in Kenya and the broader East African area, the place roads are sometimes slender and in poor situation with many potholes.
Police typically blame street accidents on dashing drivers.
In one other accident on Thursday, 9 folks have been killed in a bus crash within the city of Naivasha within the county of Nakuru. The victims have been amongst 32 employees going to work when the bus crashed at a railway crossing, police mentioned.
