Sunday, December 14, 2008

Mombasa Road Claims Its Due In Blood.

Kenya bus crash kills seventy

Seventy people have been killed in Kenya in one of the worst road accidents in the country's history.

Police said the crash took place when an overloaded bus was crushed between trucks as it tried to overtake on the main highway linking the capital, Nairobi, and the port city of Mombasa.

Many more people were injured, and were ferried to hospital.

A BBC correspondent who visited the scene, says emergency services did not arrive quickly, but once underway, the rescue effort was well-co-ordinated. The accident comes just three weeks another bus crash claimed the lives of more than seventy people, making it the country's worst road accident.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service

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