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At least 37 people died yesterday in a grisly road accident at the Sachangwan blackspot on the Nakuru-Eldoret highway.

The 12.30pm accident involved more than 15 vehicles and some people died on the spot while others were stuck in wreckage for hours.

Witnesses said the trailer ferrying fertiliser to Nakuru from Eldoret was being pursued by NTSA officials and the driver lost control of the vehicle while speeding off, ramming into a bus, which then caused a pileup involving PSVs and private vehicles.

The highway was barricaded for hours, forcing road users to divert to Molo town.

David Njenga, one of the passengers in the bus on its way to Kampala, said the accident was caused by the trailer. “I was traumatised to see parts of bodies torn apart,” he said. Njenga said he saw bodies of five people without their heads.

The scene is barely a kilometre away form the mass grave where fire accident victims were buried eight years ago.