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Kenya bus-truck crash kills at least 24 on Nairobi-Mombasa highway
Police said a bus collided with a truck on Kenya’s main highway on Sunday, killing at least 24 people, Africanews and AP reports said.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer and Africanews are now reporting this
- New headline Was: “Bus crash in Kenya kills 24 near the site of a previous fatal accident”
- Our desk filed its story
Wire reporting: (AP, via The Philadelphia Inquirer)
A bus collided with a truck on Kenya’s Nairobi-Mombasa highway on Sunday, killing at least 24 people, Africanews reported, citing police2.
The AP account carried by The Philadelphia Inquirer also put the death toll at at least 24, while the AP page retrieved in this pass used a headline of 22 killed1,3.
About 24 other people were injured in the morning crash, Africanews said2. The Inquirer AP copy said most of the injured were treated at Mtito Andei hospital, according to medical superintendent Paul Kisienya1.
Passengers were returning to Mombasa after a church pastor’s funeral in western Kenya, both Africanews and the AP copy said1,2.
Africanews said authorities attributed the crash to improper overtaking2. The Inquirer AP copy said Kenya’s National Transport Safety Authority suspected improper overtaking after reports of a head-on collision, while a passenger named Spenza Mudave said a truck hit the bus from behind and the bus rolled1.
Reverend Spencier Mdave, a passenger quoted by Africanews, said “the trailer tried to overtake our bus only to meet on-coming traffic”2.
The crash came three weeks after 17 people died in another accident on the same highway linking Nairobi and Mombasa1,2,3.
Africanews said transport safety officials called for road accidents to be declared a national disaster, citing about 20,000 crashes and more than 5,000 deaths a year2. The Inquirer AP copy said the authority called for crashes to be declared a “national disaster”1.
President William Ruto sent condolences and ordered inspections of all public service vehicles, Africanews reported, and urged drivers to follow traffic rules2. The circumstances of the collision remained in dispute between the overtaking account and the rear-impact account1,2.
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Bus crash in Kenya kills 24 near the site of a previous fatal accident
Leads with a figure in the headline.
Same copy also at: (AP, via The Philadelphia Inquirer)
'National emergency': 24 dead in Kenya bus crash near site of previous fatal accident
NTSA call for a national disaster or emergency declaration and Ruto’s inspection order
Reports 24 dead and 24 injured, cites improper overtaking, and notes President Ruto ordered inspections of public service vehicles.
Leaves out Hospital superintendent name and some passenger details in the AP account