Bloodbath as 21 people perish, 49 injured after road accident at Kenya-Uganda border

Twenty-one people have been killed and 49 others injured after a bus headed to Nairobi crashed shortly after crossing border from Uganda.

The bus was travelling from the eastern Ugandan city of Mbale to the Kenyan capital and crashed in the town of Lwakhakha, just across the border from a Ugandan town.

Eight Ugandans were among those killed and an unspecified number of Kenyans.

Ugandan regional police spokesman Rogers Taitika said that preliminary reports indicated that the cause of the accident was overspeeding and that the driver had apparently lost control, sending the vehicle veering off the road.

“Preliminary findings point to a case of overspeeding by the bus driver,” he added.

On January 6, a passenger bus rammed into a stationary truck near the northern Ugandan city of Gulu, killing 16 people.

Ugandan police say 104 road crashes were registered in just three days over the New Year period between December 30 to January 1 with 35 people dead and 114 injured, in addition to the victims of the latest January accidents.