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Around 20 people dead, scores injured
The OC Traffic of Namisindwa is in touch with the one across the border to ascertain need for evacuation of the survivors back to UG. It’s said that 95% of the casualties were Ugandans.
Irene Nakasiita,Uganda Red Cross Spokesperson said,yes it happened in Lwakhakha Kenya and the OC OC is saying it happened at 6pm. But some are still covered under the bus and they’re still waiting for a crane. Survivors were rushed to a nearby Hospital in Bungoma, and as well as clinics in lwakhaha.
Unfortunately, the boarder is closed till tomorrow.
Patrict Kitau, the Bungoma District Police Commander in Kenya, said the crash that left at least 49 other people seriously hurt, occurred around 8pm in Lwakhaha, Kenyan side 3 kilometer from Uganda-Kenya Border.
According to Kitau, the victims were traveling on a speeding bus Registration Number KCL 850M which belongs to Nairobi Bus Company which had set off from Mbale to Nairobi before the driver lost control and it veered off the road.
He said preliminary investigations revealed that the cause of the crash was overspending according to Daily Monitor.
According to Kitau, the victims were traveling on a speeding bus Registration Number KCL 850M which belongs to Nairobi Bus Company which had set off from Mbale to Nairobi before the driver lost control and it veered off the road.
He said preliminary investigations revealed that the cause of the crash was overspending according to Daily Monitor.
Daily Monitor added that:Kenyan authorities are still establishing the identies of the victims, but majority of them are Ugandans, according to Kitau.
Their bodies are lying at Chepteyis and Lwandanyi hospital mortuaries waiting to be identified by their relatives while the injured are receiving treatment at the same hospitals.
According to an eyewitness, the driver of the speeding bus failed to negotiate a corner before it veered off the road.
Their bodies are lying at Chepteyis and Lwandanyi hospital mortuaries waiting to be identified by their relatives while the injured are receiving treatment at the same hospitals.
According to an eyewitness, the driver of the speeding bus failed to negotiate a corner before it veered off the road.