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40 people lost their lives in a manner that the medical superintendent at Naivasha Sub-county Hospital — where the bodies were stored — described as “a painful way to die”.
- at around 9pm, he saw a lorry come hurtling down the hill, on the road.“I heard a loud bang. Then the truck rolled on the side of the road where cars heading to Nairobi were. It knocked the first car then fire started,” said the bespectacled old man.The truck exploded, killing dozens and leaving in its wake shells of what used to be people’s sleek cars.
- ...other witnesses, said that the driver applied emergency brakes on reaching the bumps — a conclusion they arrived at because of the screeching sound of brakes — a decision that triggered the chain of deadly collisions.
- Yesterday, government officials debated whether the presence of the bumps on the highway might have caused the accident.