Five people died while several others sustained injuries in an accident involving a bus, tractor and a trailer along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway in the Kambu area in Kibwezi, Makueni County on Tuesday night.
According to the Kibwezi Sub-county police commander Peter Maina, the bus was travelling from Nairobi to Mombasa when it hit a tractor and veered, colliding with an oncoming truck.
The five died on the spot, said the police boss.
The injured were taken to the Kibwezi Sub-county Hospital and the Makindu Sub-county Hospital.