11 Kenyatta University students on Monday evening perished and 47 others injured in a collision between their bus and a truck at Maungu on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway.
According to police, the university bus travelling towards Mombasa was overtaking a fleet of vehicles and, due to heavy rain, the bus skidded to the right of the road and an oncoming truck avoided a head-on collision and rammed into the left side of the bus.
Those injured are currently receiving treatment at the Moi County Referral Hospital in Voi.
The total number of passengers in the university bus was 58. 55 students, one lab technician and two drivers.
11 were fatally injured as 10 died on the spot while one died on arrival at the hospital. Another 42 are seriously injured, while 4 are slightly injured, according to the latest police report.
Tens of occupants of the ill-fated bus who were injured were rushed to the Moi County Referral Hospital in Voi.
