A fuel tanker going towards Webuye had rammed another tanker and shoved it into a stationary matatu before both vehicles hit a power transformer and caught fire. Brian Ilaki, an 11-year-old pupil at Maturu Primary School, had gone to the market to buy vegetables when the accident happened. “While he was crossing in front of the ill-fated matatu, the accident occurred, and he was knocked down,” Everlyne Mulama, his mother, recalls. When The Standard team visited survivors at the Webuye County Hospital a day after the accident, Ilaki lay in bed motionless, bandaged and in pain. Bishop Harun Kokonyi Sirengo of Mercy Gospel Church was in the ill-fated matatu and sustained head, chest and spinal injuries.

Source: Standard Digital November 20, 2021 10:36 UTC