Seven secondary school students are nursing serious injuries at a Kisumu hospital following a Friday night accident that killed one student on the spot. Two of them are in high dependency units at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital.
The hospital’s superintendent Juliana Otieno said all the seven were stable and out of serious danger. They had fractured limbs and head injuries, she said. She said 20 of the more than 50 students injured in the accident that occurred just metres from the Kombewa sub-county hospital at about 6pm were rushed to the facility but only seven admitted.

Three teachers were among those injured when the school bus ferrying students of St John’s Ngutu and Rapogi secondary schools in Seme sub-county veered off the road and toppled onto a ditch, crushing one student to death. The students were returning home from a sporting activity in Bar-Korwa when the accident happened. The driver of bus belonging to Rapogi Secondary School was said to have been speeding at the slope and tried to avoid a head on with a climbing van as he tried to overtake a motorcycle at a blind corner.