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Wednesday August 29, 2007

20 killed in road crash

By John Oywa

Twenty people were killed after a petrol tanker ploughed into a bus along the Kisumu-Busia road.

The Tuesday night accident also left 21 passengers injured. Siaya District Police Chief, Mr Humphrey Wanzala, said 17 passengers died on the spot after the tanker hit a City Hoppa bus at Muholo, a black spot near Yalla township shortly after 7 pm.

Survivors on Wednesday gave spine-chilling accounts of the accident. They said an oncoming truck drove over bodies and some of the injured passengers lying on the road.

The mangled wreck of the City Hoppa bus that was involved in an accident along the Kisumu-Busia road. Picture by Titus Munala “I saw it all. The trailer came speeding as we struggled to free ourselves from the bus wreckage. It ran over some passengers, crushing their limbs,” Ms Frida Nerma said.

She said many people would have survived were it not for the truck. The bus was headed to Busia from Nairobi, while the tanker, which was empty at the time, was heading to the Kenya Pipeline Company depot in Kisumu.

Most of the dead were women and children

Wanzala said 24 passengers were taken to the Yalla sub District hospital but two, including a five-year -old boy, died on arrival. One more passenger succumbed to injuries at the Nyanza Provincial hospital in Kisumu.

Most of the dead were women and children, he said. Area residents helped to retrieve badly mutilated bodies from the road.

Yala Sub District hospital medical Superintendent, Dr Primus Ochieng’, said the people still admitted at the hospital were in stable condition.

The Nyanza Provincial Police officer, Ms Grace Kaindi, said police had launched a manhunt for the truck driver.

“We are pursuing him to answer for this heartless and inhuman act,” Kaindi said.

She said police were also searching for the petrol tanker driver, who disappeared soon after the accident.

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