Bus Crash Kills 25 People Returning From Funeral in Kenya

Kenyan Police confirmed on Saturday that a bus carrying mourners from a funeral crashed in western Kenya, killing 25 people.

A Kenyan Police report says the driver lost control, veered off the road and overturned into a ditch along the Kisumu-Kakamega Highway on Friday afternoon, noting that the area is notorious for many deadly accidents.

Police said 10 women, 10 men and one girl died at the scene, with 20 passengers injured, five of them seriously. Four people later died in hospital, officials said.

The passengers were returning from a burial ground and are all believed to be from one family.

According to the Police, the vehicle was a secondary school bus, but there were no students on board as it was being used for the funeral transport. 

The bus was coming from a burial ceremony at Nyahera and going to Nyakach, a distance of about 62 km (38.5 miles).

On Thursday, nine people were killed when a bus collided with a train in the town of Naivasha, local media reported. And on Saturday, seven people were killed in another crash near Nairobi, according to media reports.

Between 2020 and 2021, Kenyan road deaths rose more than 20%. In 2021, more than 4,500 people were killed and more than 16,000 injured.