Mob sets bus ablaze after accident kills boda boda rider in Donholm

A mob attacked and set on fire a bus that had been involved in a fatal accident in Donholm, Nairobi.

Police said the bus had knocked down and killed a rider before a mob turned on it and set it on fire.

This was after the passengers and crew present escaped from the bus, police said.

The police said they arrived at the scene and found the bus on fire.

A mob that was behind the incident had escaped the scene.

The body of the rider was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations.

Elsewhere, a journalist with the Standard Group lost his parents in an accident along the Narok-Bomet Highway.

The accident occurred on Wednesday afternoon in the Ololunga area, according to police.

Journalist Edwin Nyarangi said he is mourning the death of his parents, who were involved in a collision with a truck as they travelled to attend his graduation ceremony in Thika Town.

“I have lost my dad and mum in a grisly road accident in a head-on collision with a truck as they were driving to Nairobi to attend my graduation at Mount Kenya University on Friday. The accident happened in Narok Town on Wednesday afternoon,” he told his colleagues on Wednesday night.

According to police and the family, the parents, identified as Josiah Biyogo Onyancha, 65 and his wife Hellen Biyogo, died in the accident as they raced towards Narok direction.

This is after their saloon car collided head-on with an oncoming lorry- a Toyota Dyna.

Witnesses said the saloon car that the couple was driving was overtaking a fleet of cars when it collided head-on with the lorry.

As a result of the collision, Onyancha died on the spot, while his wife was rescued and rushed to the hospital, where she succumbed to the injuries.

The driver of the lorry was also injured and admitted to the Narok County Referral Hospital. The vehicles involved in the accident were towed to the local police station pending further action.

The bodies were moved to the local mortuary pending an autopsy.

The two were among eight people who were killed in separate accidents on Wednesday alone.

They included three pedestrians, a driver, two riders, a passenger and a pillion passenger.,

At least 21 people, including nine passengers, five riders, two drivers and two pillion passengers, were injured in the accidents, police said.