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Strewn luggage of passengers at an accident scene after bus lost control at Fort Ternan in Kericho County on October 10,2018. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
Fort Ternan, the village where a bus accident caused the death of more than 50 people yesterday, is known for its beauty and great geographical features.
Sitting on a prehistoric site, where archaeologist Louis Leakey discovered a 14 million-year-old fossil in 1961, Fort Ternan was a little known village until white settlers grabbed it soon after the construction of the Nairobi-Kisumu railway line.
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