Desk Report
Publish: 26 Jul 2022, 06:21 pm
Photo: Collected
At
least 24 people died in central Kenya when their bus veered off a bridge and
plunged into a river valley, media reported on Monday.
The
Daily Nation and Standard newspapers reported that the incident occurred on Sunday
evening in Tharaka Nithi County, when the bus belonging to Modern Coast company
traveling from Meru to the port city of Mombasa veered off the Nithi Bridge,
plunging into the valley 40 meters below.
"We
are sadly announcing to the nation ... we have lost 24 people in a grisly
Modern Coast Bus accident on the notorious Nithi River Bridge along the Meru -
Nairobi highway," county Commissioner Nobert Komora was quoted as saying
by Daily Nation.
Nation
reported Komora as saying that initial investigations showed the bus's brakes
may have failed, preventing its driver from properly turning on a sharp bend at
the bridge.
Data
from the National Bureau of Statistics show that 4,579 people died in road
accidents in Kenya in 2021, a 15% rise from a year earlier._Reuters
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