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Two students, journalists assaulted after Kisii road crash

Rioters engage police in running battles along Kisii-Sotik highway after two students were killed along the highwa, Friday. [PHOTO: Denish Ochieng/ Standard ]

Kisii, Kenya: Two students from Gusii Institute of Technology died in a road accident while two journalists were assaulted by police as they covered the incident.

Witnesses say a traffic police officer impounded a lorry and chose to drive it to the police station but accidentally crashed into the two students outside the institution’s gate.

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