UPDATE: 8 Confirmed Dead After Multi-Vehicle Crash on Mai Mahiu-Narok Highway
A police report has confirmed that eight people died following two separate crashes at the same spot involving six vehicles and a motorcycle.
The first crash happened when the tyre of a trailer heading towards Mai Mahiu burst resulting in it crashing with a Premio car, a bus and a matatu. Three of the matatu passengers succumbed.
Shortly after, another trailer from the same direction arrived at the scene at high speed, colliding with a Prado whose two occupants died instantly and one died later at the hospital.
The trailer also knocked down a motorcycle killing two pillion passengers. All the deceased and the injured have been transported to the Narok County Referral Hospital. The number of injured is yet to be confirmed.
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