Three people, two truck drivers and a turn boy perished in a grisly road accident involving three vehicles near Maanzoni Lodge, Athi River sub-county along the busy Nairobi-Mombasa highway.
Machakos County Government emergency services director David Mwongela said the two trucks collided at an intersection of the road knocking off another vehicle onto a Probox which was heading to Nairobi from Mombasa.
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The emergency services officers struggled to save the driver of the Probox car who was trapped in the wreckage.