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Nine pupils die, 32 injured in tragic road accident along Mwingi-Garissa Highway

The school bus involved in a road accident along Nairobi-Mwingi-Garissa Highway.

Nine pupils from St Gabriel primary school in Mwingi died on Saturday night while 32 others sustained multiple injuries when their school bus collided head on with a lorry at Kanginga area, about two kilometres from Mwingi town.

Following the crash that happened at around 11pm, the school bus lost control, overturned and fell into Kanginga River.

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