Police in Kenya have said most of the 21 people who died in the bus accident at Lwakakha closed to the Uganda-Kenya border are Ugandans.
Patrict Kitau, the District police commander Bungoma District in Kenya, says that the crash occurred around 8pm on Saturday in Lwakhaha, Kenyan side 3 kilometer from Uganda Kenya Border.
According to Kitau, the dead were traveling on a bus Registration Number KCL 850M which belongs to Nairobi Bus Company which and travelling from Mbale to Nairobi which veered off the road and overturned several times.
He says preliminary investigations reveal that the cause of the crash was overspending.
Kitau says, they are establishing the identities of the deceased crash victims, but confirmed that majority of them are Ugandan nationals.
Their bodies are lying at Chepteyis and Lwandanyi hospital mortuaries waiting to be identified by their relatives while the injured are receiving treatment at the same hospitals.
According to an eyewitness, the bus was moving at a high speed and failed to negotiate small corner and veered off the road.
He says the driver is believed to have been also drunk.
This comes two days after 18 people died in an accident that occurred in Kamdini, along the Kampala-Gulu highway in Oyam District.
A bus Registration Number UAT 259P which belongs to Roblyn Bus Company was travelling from Kampala to Gulu when it rammed into a trailer at around midnight. The trailer registration Number UAZ 381A/ UBD 318C was loading cassava at Adebe trading centre just one kilometre to corner Kamdini checkpoint.
The country has recorded an unprecedented number of accidents over the festive season, which, according to police records claimed more than 90 lives in a space of two weeks. 35 of these died in two days between December 31, 2022, and January 1, 2023, while 55 people lost lives in 206 crushes that took place during the Christmas week.