Five more bodies were recovered from the twisted wreckage of the bus, bringing the total number of fatalities in the horrifying vehicle accident in the Migaa area near Salgaa to thirteen.
According to Jasper Ombati, the Regional Police Commander Rift Valley, fifty-five additional passengers sustained various injuries and are receiving treatment at several hospitals nearby.
A Coast Bus traveling from Kakamega to Mombasa at 4 a.m. on Tuesday was involved in an accident involving an unspecified number of passengers.
According to survivors, the bus encountered mechanical problems in Kericho before it seemed to lose brakes and collide with a private car in Migaa.
Eleven people on the bus and two more from the private vehicle perished.
Fearing that more bodies might be trapped in the bus’s twisted wreckage, rescue operations got underway Tuesday morning.
Following the morning’s disaster, the Kenya Red Cross said that 36 people were receiving treatment at Coptic and Molo Hospitals and that it had sent out response teams.
