Kenya bus crash kills at least 24 as government vows road safety crackdown

At least 24 people were killed and 24 injured on Sunday when a bus carrying mourners collided with a cement truck near Mtito Andei on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway. The bus, owned by Power of the Word Church International in Mombasa, was taking passengers home from their pastor’s funeral in western Kenya. The cause remains under investigation: a local administrator and the national transport authority cited dangerous overtaking as a possibility, while another survivor said the truck struck the bus from behind. The crash came just over three weeks after a collision on the same highway killed 17 people, prompting renewed government promises to improve road safety.