Vehicle Ferrying Police officers and Teachers involved in an Accident.
Vehicle Ferrying Police officers and Teachers involved in an Accident: Five police officers and four teachers were injured on Thursday in an accident along Banisa-Guba road in Mandera.
This is after the Toyota Landcruiser the group was riding in had tyre bursts.
The driver of the police vehicle hit a pothole in the Armano area affecting two tyres it went off the road before it landed in a ditch.
The victims included five police officers from Choroqo Border Patrol Unit camp and teachers from Choroqo Primary School, Qotqot Primary and Guba Primary School.
The group of teachers had hiked a lift on the police vehicle when the incident happened. They sustained multiple injuries in the accident.
The injured group was rushed to Banisa Subcounty Hospital for medical attention in stable condition, police said.
Along Elwak-Mandera Road, three people were injured in a collision between two motorcyclists who were moving in the opposite direction.
Witnesses told police one of the motorcycles which was moving from Wargadud to Elwak general direction had a rider and two pillion passengers who were all seriously injured.
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