Academy teachers, workers among Wundanyi-Mwatate accident victims

The bus was ferrying 26 passengers to Mombasa at the time of the accident. [iStockphoto]

Secondary school teachers and workers of a private school in Mombasa are among the mourners who died in a grisly road accident along the Wundanyi-Mwatate road in Taita-Taveta County on Saturday evening.

Police said the accident victims from the Academy were travelling home from Kidaya Ngerenyi in Mwatate Sub-county where they had attended a burial ceremony that later turned tragic, leaving 22 passengers critically injured.