NAIROBI, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP): At least 26 people were
killed and many others injured in a head-on crash between a bus and a truck on the highway between Nairobi and Kenya’s second city Mombasa, police said Tuesday.
“It was a very bad head-on collision. We lost 26 people in the
accident,” Leonard Kimaiyo, police chief for the southern town of Kibwezi said.
Another senior officer said the bus, heading to Mombasa, was
overtaking several vehicles when it collided with an oil tanker.
Kenya has a poor road safety record, with up to 3,000 people killed
each year according to police. The World Health Organization puts the toll at 12,000.
In December at least 40 people were killed an accident around 100
kilometres (60 miles) northwest of Nairobi, in which a tanker smashed into
several other vehicles before exploding.