At least 42 passengers were on Wednesday killed in a road accident involving a PSV bus at Tunnel flyover on the Londiani-Muhoroni highway.
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Wednesday 10, October, Kenyans woke up to the shocking news of a tragic road accident that had claimed atleast 50 lives as at 9:30 am.
Wednesday 10, October, Kenyans woke up to the shocking news of a tragic road accident that had claimed 50 lives as at 9:30 am.
The Homeboyz bus that crashed and killed 56 people at the Fort Ternan black spot in Kericho county was on an illegal night run, Police Inspector General Joseph Boinett said yesterday.
, NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 10 – A dawn accident has claimed 51 lives along Londiani-Muhoroni road, within Kericho County.
Even the shell of the bus that was shredded by the impact of the crash and that lay in an open field strewn with luggage, twisted metal and bodies had a sense of deja vu.
The death toll in the fatal accident that occurred on Wednesday at Tunnel flyover on the Londiani-Muhoroni highway has risen to 50.
National leaders have condoled with the families and friends of those who have lost relatives in the Fort Ternan bus crash that killed 52 on Wednesday morning October 10, 2018 on the Kisumu – Muhoroni Highway.
“Reports reaching me are that more than 40 people died on the spot but it could be more because the roof of the bus was ripped off,” Rift Valley Provincial Traffic Officer Zero Arome told AFP.
At least 50 people were on Wednesday, October 10, confirmed dead in a horrific road crash on the Kisumu-Muhoroni highway at Fort Ternan area in Kericho County.
At least 50 passengers were on the morning of Wednesday, October 10 killed in a road accident involving a PSV bus.
As families continue mourning their loved ones who lost their lives at Fort Ternan accident, Kakamega County government has formed a committee to organise a mass funeral service for the victims.
The grisly early Wednesday, October 10 Kipkelion accident that has left 55 people dead has not only plunged the country into mourning but also sent shock waves across the world.
The bus, travelling to Kakamega from the capital Nairobi, crashed in Fort Ternan in Kericho County with eyewitnesses putting the time of the accident at about 4am.
, NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 11 – Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet Thursday said the responsibility to enforce traffic rules along the Londiani-Muhoroni road where 56 died following a tragic passenger bus crash early Wednesday fell on the Keric...
Speaking to KTN News while on his bed at Muhoroni hospital, the male survivor blamed the Home Boyz bus crew for the accident that happened on the morning of Wednesday 10th October.
That area, nestled in a picturesque, undulating topography in today’s Kericho County, was largely a remote outpost characterised by meagre dirt roads linking somnolent, backwater villages to emerging urban centres.
Subsequently, Magistrate Samuel Wahome allowed police to detain Bus owner Cleophas Shimanyula and one of the directors of Western Cross Express Sacco which owns the fleet, Bernard Ishindu Shitiabayi.
That area, nestled in a picturesque, undulating topography in today’s Kericho County, was largely a remote outpost characterised by meagre dirt roads linking somnolent, backwater villages to emerging urban centres.
The latest development brings the death toll to 58 even as families continued to flock Kericho County Referral Hospital and mortuary a day after the Wednesday, October 10 accident.
Residents look at the wreckage of a bus that crashed, near Fort Ternan along the Londiani-Muhoroni road in Kericho county, Kenya October 10, 2018.