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Form three student among five Lunyerere Bridge accident victims

The wreckage of the matatu that hit a guard rail killing five people 

A Form three student at Chavakali High School was among the five people that died in a grisly accident at Lunyerere Bridge in Sabatia constituency, Vihiga County on Friday evening.

The accident left 22 other passengers hospitalised after a matatu they were travelling in from Mbale town veered off road hitting a guard rail and plunging into river Edzava, between Mbale and Chavakali towns.

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