Chilling scenes as 20 killed in horrific dawn accident

The wreckage of a trailer ferrying electric poles that collided with a Busia bound bus at Soysambu on the Nakuru - Nairobi highway on May 13, 2017 claiming 20 lives. Photo/Suleiman Mbatiah

The smell of death. Mutilated bodies strewn in the middle of the road. A mangled wreck. Twenty lives cut short.

This was the sight of a horrific crash that left 20 dead at Soysambu along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway at 3am yesterday. Blood was still oozing out of the bodies as rescuers struggled to recover them from the mangled wreck. Rescuers had to cut through the wreckage to retrieve bodies trapped on seats and others under the wheels of loaded trailers. It was horrific.