Bus carrying funeral mourners crashes in Kenya, 25 dead
The bus was travelling on Friday evening from the western town of Kakamega to the city of Kisumu, where the accident happened.
The driver lost control as the bus approached a roundabout at high speed and plunged into a ditch, according to Peter Maina, a regional traffic enforcement officer for the province of Nyanza, where Kisumu is located.
The victims include 10 women, 10 men and a 10-year-old girl, he said.
Four of the 29 people injured in the crash later died in the hospital, said Fredrick Ouma Oluga, the principal secretary in charge of medical services in Kenya.
The crash shocked many in the region, sparking renewed calls for tougher road safety measures.
Road accidents are common in Kenya and the wider East African region, where roads are often narrow and in poor condition with many potholes. Police often blame road accidents on speeding drivers.
In another accident on Thursday, nine people were killed in a bus crash in the town of Naivasha in the county of Nakuru. The victims were among 32 workers going to work when the bus crashed at a railway crossing, police said.
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