Bus carrying mourners overturns in Kenya, killing 21 people

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The operator mislaid power of the autobus successful Kisumu, connected a notorious conception of roadworthy wherever accidents are frequent.

Published On 8 Aug 2025

A autobus carrying mourners backmost location from a ceremonial successful southwestern Kenya has overturned and plunged into a ditch, sidesplitting astatine slightest 21 people, constabulary said.

The autobus was travelling from the occidental municipality of Kakamega to the metropolis of Kisumu, wherever the mishap happened.

The operator mislaid power of the autobus arsenic it approached a roundabout astatine precocious velocity and plunged into a ditch, according to Peter Maina, a determination postulation enforcement serviceman for the state of Nyanza, wherever Kisumu is located.

“The conveyance mislaid control, veered, rolled onto the different broadside of the road,” helium told reporters astatine the scene.

“Amongst the 21 who mislaid their lives were 10 women, and a miss aged 10, and 10 men,” helium said.

Five radical were earnestly wounded successful the incident, Maina said, among them an eight-month-old babe who was presently receiving attraction astatine a adjacent hospital.

The origin of the clang was not wide and investigations were ongoing. Local media reported the incidental took spot connected a notorious conception of roadworthy wherever collisions are frequent.

The deadly mishap follows an aircraft crash adjacent the capital, Nairobi, connected Thursday, erstwhile an aerial ambulance came down successful a residential area, sidesplitting six people.

The aforesaid day, section media reported that a collision betwixt a bid and autobus killed eight.

Road accidents are communal successful Kenya and the wider East African region, wherever roads are often constrictive and successful mediocre information with galore potholes.

Police often blasted roadworthy accidents connected speeding drivers.

In different mishap connected Thursday, 9 radical were killed successful a autobus clang successful the municipality of Naivasha successful the region of Nakuru. The victims were among 32 workers going to enactment erstwhile the autobus crashed astatine a railway crossing, constabulary said.