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Kenya bus crash kills at least 24 as government vows road safety crackdown
Church mourners die on Kenya’s Nairobi-Mombasa Highway weeks after another crash killed 17 people.
Al Jazeera•
A bus carrying mourners has collided with a truck on a major highway in southeastern Kenya, killing at least 24 people, police say.
The crash happened in the Kanga area near Mtito Andei, on the road linking the capital, Nairobi, to the coastal city of Mombasa, at about 7:45am (04:45 GMT) on Sunday, October 25.
The deaths came just over three weeks after another crash on the highway killed 17 people, prompting fresh government promises to improve road safety.
Kenya’s National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) also identified dangerous overtaking as a possible cause. Another survivor said the truck struck the bus from behind.