Five people died and eight others injured after a tree fell on a matatu near Kianda school,
Kangemi area in Nairobi on Wednesday.
The victims, four passengers in the Nakuru-bound matatu and a cyclist, died on the spot, Nairobi police commander Japheth Koome said.
"The accident which occurred at 6.30pm was caused by the huge tree which was aged and whose roots had become weak," Koome told the Star on phone on Thursday.
The injured were rushed to Kikuyu hospital.
A crowd milled around causing a traffic snarl up on the highway before more police arrived and cleared the scene of the accident.
The death toll as a result of road accidents has continued to rise despite taken by the National Transport and Safety Authority to curb carnage.
Over 60 lives have been lost since 2016 and an estimated 3,000 deaths occur annually.
About 11 people have died in road carnage since February, including three deaths caused by motorists who were allegedly along Thika Superhighway.
On Tuesday, four people died while nine were injured when a bus collided head-on with an oncoming matatu at a location said to be a on the Naivasha-Nakuru Highway.
