Tragic end for six university students in ride to attend party

Eight people among them six University students perished in a road accident along Kisii-Kilgoris road on 1.7.2016. The accident involved three vehicles,a canter , a saloon car and Noah. The students were headed to a party in Magena area Kisii County before a car they were traveling in collided head on with an oncoming canter that was headed to Kisii town. (Photo: Eric Abuga/Standard)

A road trip for seven university students to attend a colleague’s birthday party in Kisii ended in tragedy after all but one perished in a grisly road accident that claimed eight lives.

Five students of Kenyatta University’s main campus in Nairobi and their friend from Dedan Kimathi University in Nyeri, left the city for Kisii County on Friday for the party in Magena village —before their lives were cut short along the Kisii-Kilgoris road.