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Three students killed in bus joyride

The ill fated St Marys Girls High school bus which killed three students on 12.8.2016. Three other students had their hands and legs amputated at Kisii level six hospital. 68 other students were admitted at the hospital. (Photos Eric Abuga/Standard)

Three students from St Mary’s Nyamagwa High School died and 68 others were injured after their new school bus was involved in an accident along the Kisii-Kilgoris road.

The accident happened at the Itumbe-Igare road off the Kisii-Kilgoris road as the students were returning from a short test drive to the nearby shopping centre to celebrate acquisition of their new bus.

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