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Village in accident mess has one tale of beautiful past

Strewn luggage of passengers at an accident scene after bus lost control at Fort Ternan in Kericho County on October 10,2018. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Fort Ternan, the village where a bus accident caused the death of more than 50 people yesterday, is known for its beauty and great geographical features.

Sitting on a prehistoric site, where archaeologist Louis Leakey discovered a 14 million-year-old fossil in 1961, Fort Ternan was a little known village until white settlers grabbed it soon after the construction of the Nairobi-Kisumu railway line.

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