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Three children and their grandfather die in crash

The family of Jackson Mbutu mourn their father and three children at their home in Kirinyaga yesterday. The deceased were run over by a speeding vehicle along the busy Makutano-Embu road over the weekend. [PHOTO: KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD]

Twice a week, three children would eagerly wait by the sides of the busy Makutano-Embu road to push their grandfather home.

The bond between the two doting boys and a girl aged between 7 and 10 and their wheelchair-bound grandfather, 60, had been nurtured over the last three years.

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