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Nine people dead after the tuk-tuk they were travelling in collided with a lorry at Murubara along the Mwea–Embu Highway in Kirinyaga county. [Timothy Kariuki, Standard]
At least 8 people have died after a lorry collided head-on with a tuk-tuk along the Mwea-Embu Road in Kirinyaga County on Saturday morning.
Mwea East Sub-County Police Commander Stephen Okal confirmed the crash happened at about 6:45 a.m. near Murubara village, when a lorry travelling from Mwea towards Embu veered into the opposite lane while attempting to avoid potholes and rammed head-on into the tuk-tuk.
Some of the victims were farm workers being ferried in the tuk-tuk to a rice planting job at the Mwea Irrigation Research area, Okal said.
