Kenya: 36 dead in the collision of a bus and a truck

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Sunday, December 31, 2017 02:14

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NAIROBI | At least 36 people were killed and 11 injured in the collision of a bus and a truck on Sunday on a road in central Kenya, has announced the local police.

“The death toll is now 36,” said the police chief of the Rift Valley, Zero Aroma, which was first mentioned in a balance sheet of thirty dead.

The accident occurred at 3 a.m. (00: 00 GMT) on a portion deemed dangerous highway Nakuru-Eldoret, where a party bus to Busia, in western Kenya, collided head-on with a truck that was coming from Nakuru.

According to local police, more than a hundred people have died on this stretch of road only during the month of December.

The chief of police said that the drivers of both vehicles were among those killed, and that a three-year-old was also killed in this accident. The wounded have been transported to the hospital in Nakuru.

A survivor speaking from his hospital bed said that he was sleeping at the time of the accident.

“All I’ve heard it is a huge noise and screaming everywhere,” he said. “I was sitting at the back of the bus and I was rescued some time after because my legs were blocked. It is by the grace of God that I’m alive. I saw many people dead and their bodies mutilated”.

Approximately 3000 people die each year in road accidents in Kenya, according to official figures, while the world Health Organization (WHO) estimates that this number reached in reality 12000.