{"id":26187,"date":"2016-06-19T04:12:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T04:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-two-die-several-injured-after-bus-collides\/"},"modified":"2016-06-19T04:12:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T04:12:30","slug":"kenya-two-die-several-injured-after-bus-collides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-two-die-several-injured-after-bus-collides\/","title":{"rendered":"Two die in night accident in Migori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A woman died on the spot while a man died while being taken to the Kisii Level Six Hospital for treatment.}<\/p>\n<p>Two people died on Saturday night while others were injured following a road accident after a bus collided head on with a truck in Migori County.<\/p>\n<p>A woman died on the spot while a man died while being taken to the Kisii Level Six Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The two were among members of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church coming from a function in Ndhiwa, Homa Bay County.<\/p>\n<p>The bus, belonging to Mukuyu Mixed Secondary School, and which was carrying the church members, collided with the oncoming truck at Kuja bridge in Rongo Sub County at 7.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Migori County Police Commander David Kirui said it was by good luck that none of the vehicles plunged into the river underneath the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>He said bus had 54 passengers on board.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers who sustained injuries were taken to Rongo and Awendo hospitals for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers of the two vehicles were among the injured, Mr Kirui said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kirui said the accident could have been caused by the narrow tarmac road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will interrogate the two drivers to tell us exactly what happened,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12880 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/acc-pic.jpg\" alt=\"Two people died on Saturday night, June 18, 2016 when this bus carrying members of the SDA Church collided head on with a truck near River Kuja bridge along Rongo-Migori road. Several others sustained injuries were taken to Rongo and Awendo hospitals for treatment.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A woman died on the spot while a man died while being taken to the Kisii Level Six Hospital for treatment.} Two people died on Saturday night while others were injured following a road accident after a bus collided head on with a truck in Migori County. A woman died on the spot while a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26187"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26187"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}