PHOTOS: Meru residents scramble for beer after truck overturns

Buuri residents at the scene of the accident. [Edwin Gitonga, Standard]

Residents of Buuri, Meru County were on Thursday treated to an early Easter after a truck with cases of beer veered off and overturned spilling its payload at Subuiga junction. 

Scene of the accident. [Edwin Gitonga, Standard]

The driver sustained injuries and was rushed to the hospital.

Photos from the scene of the accident. [Edwin Gitonga, Standard]

Photos from the scene of the accident captured frenzied locals carting away beer bottles and ransacking the overturned truck.

Photos from the scene of the accident. [Edwin Gitonga, Standard]

The incident comes hot on the heels of another scramble where residents in Kisii looted oil from a truck ferrying petrol that overturned along the Nyamataro-Daraja Mbili on January 9, 2021. That same month, a lorry ferrying bread was looted after it overturned at a shopping center in Kanyoni, along the Mangu-Naivasha road.

Photos from the scene of the accident. [Edwin Gitonga, Standard]

Below is a video from the accident: