Kenya: 20 killed as truck smashes into bus

(SomaliNet) A large articulated truck smashed into a passenger bus in western Kenya killing twenty two people leaving several others injured, police and medics said Wednesday.

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

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 350 kilometers (220 miles) 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. - Sapa-AFP