Twenty people have been rescued after a bus they were travelling on caught fire along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway in Makueni County.
Eastern regional police commander Joseph Ole Napeiyan said the passenger service vehicle was en route to Nairobi from Mombasa when it went into flames at the Kanga area within Tsavo National Park in the wee hours of Monday morning.
The 1.00 am incident was reported to Mtito Andei police station as a vehicle fire incident involving a passenger bus.
Napeiyan said there were no injuries during the incident noting that all the occupants were successfully evacuated from the burning bus.
Their luggage was also salvaged with all on board being accounted for.
"It was reported by other motorists at about 1.00 am that there was a vehicle which was on fire along Nairobi-Mombasa highway at Kanga area within Tsavo National Park," Napeiyan told the Star by phone on Monday.
"Our officers responded and established that motor vehicle registration, a PSV bus was moving from Mombasa direction headed to Nairobi with 20 passengers on board before it got burnt completely after it caught fire from the rear wheel tyre.
"There were no reported injuries while all luggage among other personal belongings was salvaged."
The police boss noted that arrangements were immediately made for another bus and all occupants proceeded with their journey to Nairobi by the same bus company.
He said they have launched investigations into the incident to ascertain the real cause of the fire.
