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11 Kenyan University Students Die In Road Accident
- A bus carrying Kenyan University students had accident, killing 11 students and 42 seriously injured.
- The accident occurred while the bus was overtaking vehicles.
- Road accidents are common in Kenya due to poor road conditions and disregard for traffic regulations
A bus carrying students from a top Kenyan versity collided with a truck on a busy highway after skidding in heavy rain, killing 11 of the students and 42 seriously injured, police said.
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The accident occurred at 5:50 pm (1450 GMT) Monday at Maungu, 360 kilometres (220 miles) from the capital Nairobi, when the students from Kenyatta University were travelling to the coastal town of Mombasa.
Police reported that ten individuals from the Kenyan university died immediately, and another died later in the hospital. Additionally, authorities noted that 42 individuals sustained serious injuries.
“The driver of (the) university bus was overtaking a fleet of motor vehicles and as it was raining heavily, the bus skidded to the right side of the road,” the police report said.
This “prompted the driver of the truck to avoid head on collision, hence hitting the left side of the university bus,” it added.
The bus has 58 people on board going for an academic trip.
The injured were taken to a hospital in the nearby town of Voi, the Kenyan Red Cross said on X, formerly Twitter.
Kenyatta University said on Tuesday it was “deeply saddened” by the accident and had set up a help desk at the main campus to provide “assistance during this challenging time”.
Some of the injured students are in the process of assessment for possible evacuation to Nairobi,” it said.
Road accidents are common in the east African nation, where road conditions are often poor and traffic regulations violated or ignored.
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According to figures by the National Transport and Safety Authority, 4,324 people were killed and 18,561 injured in 2023 in road accidents in Kenya, down 7.8 percent from the previous year.
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