The bus was travelling from Busia in western Kenya when it collided with a truck coming from Nakuru town. Arome said the drivers of both vehicles and a three-year-old child were among the dead. One survivor, speaking from his hospital bed, said he had been asleep at the back of the bus when the collision happened. I saw many people dead and their bodies mutilated.”Official statistics show that about 3,000 people a year die in road accidents in Kenya, but the World Health Organisation estimates the figure could be as high as 12,000. Hundreds of people have died in road accidents in recent weeks, among them three Pentecostal bishops and a newly elected governor.

Source: The Guardian December 31, 2017 10:28 UTC