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How mother's quick thinking saved 7-month-old in Kisumu bus tragedy that killed 26

The bus crash that claimed the lives of 26 near Coptic Roundabout in Kisumu. [Clinton Ambujo, Standard]

Vyckline Adongo, a mother of four, still frets and prays at the thought of how her seven-month-old baby survived the horrific bus accident in Kisumu that left 26 people dead.

Innocent Brighten's miraculous escape, what happened to him moments after the bus crashed, with the infant slipping from her mother's hands, is still a mystery to Adongo.

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