Several people have been confirmed dead on the spot with others sustaining serious injuries after a bus full of passengers veered off the road and rolled several times.
According to reports four individuals were confirmed dead with several injuries reported when the bus they were travelling in was involved in an accident at the Gof Chopa area along the Marsabit-Moyale Highway.
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Marsabit County Police Commander Nyambu Mwakio confimed the grisly accident that left scores injured in the early Friday Morning accident with the injured being rushed to Marsabit Country Referral Hospital.
The bus belonging to Soores company is said to have been heading to Moyale from Nairobi via Marsabit when the accident occurred leaving two men, a woman and a girl dead on the spot.
Police commander also said that Investigations have been launched to establish the cause of the accident that has left many nursing injuries with the deceased taken to Marsabit Hospital morgue.
However, preliminary investigations reveal that the bus driver lost control of the bus before veering off the road leading to the vehicle rolling several times before coming to a stop off the road.
Photos that have circulated online show that the bus was badly damaged showing the extent of the damage that left four dead. Police have visited the area to establish more into the unfortunate incident.
The incident comes barely a week after ten people succumbed in a road accident after a trailer collided with an oncoming matatu in Mai Mahiu town, Naivasha.
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The accident is also said to have occurred after a truck allegedly lost control before ramming into an oncoming matatu which was full of passengers, leading to the deaths.