11 people confirmed dead in grisly accident on Kisumu-Nairobi Highyway

More than 10 people have been confirmed dead including a child following a grisly road accident in the Othoo area in Awasi along the Kisumu Nairobi highway.

According to the Nyando subcounty police commander Grace Thuo, the accident involved a Super Metro bus and a lorry.

The bus was heading to Nairobi from Kampala.

Thuo noted that the accident happened when the driver of the bus was trying to overtake.

"Both the two vehicles are damaged and we can say for now around 10 people dead and a child who is around 3 to 4 years old succumbed," Thuo said.

She noted that the number might rise because several people who were rushed to various hospitals had different injuries.

One of the Red Cross officers around the area who alerted the Star on the incident noted that the accident happened around 2 am.

"This accident is bad, I can see several bodies here, the bus collided with a lorry that was carrying rice because we could see it scattered everywhere," he said.

A journalist who was supposed to be on the bus but missed it posted in one group thanking God for saving his life.

"I thank God so much because I booked the bus from Kisumu, I can't tell what happened because other passengers with whom we had booked it boarded while I missed it," he said.