Truck crashes into bus, 22 die
29/08/2007 19:42  - (SA)  

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Traffic crash kills 20 in Kenya 3 tourists die in Kenyan crash Nine killed in Kenya bus crash

Kisumu - Twenty-two people were killed and several injured when an large articulated truck smashed into a passenger bus in western Kenya, police and medics said on Wednesday.

Twenty people died after the lorry lost control and rammed into the oncoming bus in the town of Yala, said area police commander Humprey Wanzala.

Two more patients died while being transferred for specialised treatment, bringing the toll to 22, said Brimus Ochieng, a medic in the Yala hospital.

"It was a very bad accident," said Wanzala.

The injured were admitted to hospitals nearby and in Kisumu, about 350km northwest of Nairobi, he added.

Road accidents are frequent in the east African nation, home to at least 34 million people, where traffic regulations are routinely violated by drivers and road conditions are often poor.

- AFP

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