23 dead, 10 rescued as bus headed for Mwingi wedding rolls into Enziu River » Capital News

NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 4 – Twenty-three people died on Saturday while 10 others were rescued alive after a bus they were traveling in rolled into Mwingi’s Enziu River as the driver attempted to cross a flooded section of the road.

Authorities reported an initial toll of four deaths but later confirmed the recovery of nineteen more bodies.

Some of the victims were pulled out of mud on the edge of the rives even as rescue teams worked to retrieve the wreckage of the bus stuck below the surface of the water with an unknown number of people trapped inside.

It was not immediately clear how many people were on board the bus with a projected sitting capacity of over fifty passengers.

Mwingi East sub-county police commander Joseph Yakan said search and rescue efforts were underway even as agencies worked to established the number of people booked on the bus before it set out on the journey to Mwingi North.