Church Choir Members Die in Bus Accident in Kenya

FROM THE AP:

Kenyan police say at least 18 people died after a bus carrying choir members to a wedding plunged into a river in Kenya today Saturday, December 4, 2021.

 Mwingi East Sub-County Police Commander Joseph Yakan said the driver tried to steer the bus past a flooded bridge, but the strong current swept the vehicle into the river. He said 10 people were rescued. The choir members of Mwingi Catholic Church had been traveling for their male colleague's wedding when the accident occurred in Kitui County. Officials said the incident is under investigation.

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KENYA BUS ACCIDENT

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Bus la timu ya Young Africans lililokuwa limebeba wachezaji pamoja na viongozi wa benchi la ufundi limepata ajali eneo na Mikese Mizani baada ya Mabus yaliyokua yakitanua kuelekea mikoa ya bara kuziba njia na kusababisha kutumbukia kwenye mtaro.

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Watu 27 wamekufa katika ajali ya Basi karibu na Hale, Tanga. Nadhani wakati umefika wa serikali kurudisha ule utaribu wa mabasi kutosafiri baada ya saa mbili jioni ili kuokoa maisha ya watu. Huo utaratibu ulikuwepo miaka ya 80 mwishoni baada ya ajali nyingi za mabasi ya mikoani. Mamia ya watu walipoteza maisha na ajali nyingi zilikuwa zinatokea usiku.

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Another road accident in week kills 27

2009-01-12

By Lulu George, Tanga

Twenty seven people died on the spot on Saturday night at Hale, near Tanga, hardly a week after 11 family members perished in another grisly road carnage.

As usual police have attributed the accident to speeding but avoided to speak about the much publicised speed governors which bus owners were ordered to install in their buses in the late 1990s.

The Saturday accident occurred at 8.30 pm after a Tanga bound bus christened Tashreef rammed into a stationary lorry, killing 27 on the spot and injuring 23, two of them seriously. The bus was travelling from Dar es salaam to Tanga.

The Chief of Traffic Police James Kombe, on his way to the accident scene, said yesterday that they were in the process of re-introducing new speed governors, more than ten years after the earlier ones were discarded.

He, however, did not say when exactly the gadgets would be installed in the passenger buses.

Tanga Regional Police Commander Simon Sirro said the driver of the fateful bus escaped immediately after the accident and was being sought by police.

He said the conductor and the turn boy of the bus were among the dead.

Tanga Regional Commissioner Mohammed Abdulaziz who arrived at the scene few minutes after the accident, broke into tears after he saw the mangled bodies.

One of the injured Omar Khalfan said the driver of the bus was speeding when the accident occurred.

``Probably he was rushing to reach Tanga before midnight, the deadline for passenger buses to travel,`` he said.

The injured have been admitted to the Muheza designated hospital and Bombo hospital respectively.

Eighteen bodies out of the 27 had been identified as of yesterday.

Sirro named them as; Idirisa Bakari, Hamidu Titu, Salama Ramadhan, Mbaruku Salum, Mussa Hussein, Msahamu Alli, Rahabu Jamal, Shaban Bakari, Hamad Alli and Omar Salehe.

Others are; Amir Sanyo, Salim Musa, Omar Al jabri, Napendaeli Msangi, Said Abdallah, police officer WP Corporal Mariam and two members of the Tanzania People\'s Defence Forces Corporal Mbaraka Mafoni and Corporal Deo Zakaria.

One of the injured Hamid Swahib said soon after the accident, a group of villagers arrived at the scene and started looting from the victims.

``They took my mobile phone and my handbag,`` Swahib said.

This is the second bad accident to occur this year, after last week a mini bus full of family members rammed into a stationary lorry killing 11 of them at Himo in Kilimanjaro Region.

SOURCE: Guardian