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Residents survey the crash scene at Chimoyi along Malaba-Eldoret Highway where the driver of a lorry ferrying stones lost control and rammed into a tractor which then smashed into St Mukasa Primary School pupils who were going back to school from lunch. [PHOTO: BENJAMIN SAKWA/STANDARD]
By LUKE ANAMI and GRACE WEKESA
Kakamega, Kenya: Eight people, among them six pupils of Chimoi Primary School in Kakamega County died in a grisly road accident along Eldoret-Webuye Road when a lorry lost control and rammed into them.
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