Nine dead and dozens injured in road accident in Kenya
Update: 2018-07-04 22:58 IST
Nine people were killed and dozens injured when a bus and truck collided early on Wednesday on a busy highway southeast of Kenya's capital, media reported.
The accident, which resulted in a fireball that incinerated both vehicles, took place near the town of Emali, 125 km southeast of Nairobi, television station NTV reported.
Pictures published by Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper showed a blackened shell of a truck on its side with wreckage strewn around it.
The injured were taken to a nearby hospital, the Nation reported.
Road accidents kill between 3,000 and 13,000 Kenyans every year, according to the latest statistics on the website of the World Health Organization (WHO).