The Police in Kenya has confirmed that a bus carrying mourners back home from a funeral in southwestern Kenya has overturned and plunged into a ditct, killing at least 25 people and injuring several others.
The bus was travelling from the western Town of Kakamega to the city of Kisumu when the accident happened.
It is reported that the driver of the bus lost lost control of the as it approached a roundabout at high speed and plunged into a ditch.
Acccording to Peter Maina, a regional traffic enforcement officer for the Province of Nyanza, where Kisumu is located, a10-year-old girl was among the crash victims.
Twenty-nine people were initially reported injured in the crash, and four of them died later in the hospital, said
The Principal Secretary in charge of medical services in Kenya Fredrick Ouma Oluga,said that the crash shocked many in the region, sparking renewed calls for tougher road safety measures.
Road accidents are common in Kenya and the wider East African region, where roads are often narrow and in poor condition with many potholes. Police often blame road accidents on speeding drivers.
In another accident, nine people were killed in a bus crash in the town of Naivasha in the county of Nakuru and the victims were among 32 workers going to work when the bus crashed at a railway crossing.
