More than 20 drown as bus swept into flooded river in Kenya

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Onlookers screamed as the yellow school bus hired to take a church choir and other revellers to the ceremony in Kitui County keeled over and sank as the driver tried to navigate the surging waters.

NAIROBI - More than 20 people drowned on Saturday when a bus travelling to a wedding in Kenya was swept away by fast-flowing waters as it tried to cross a flooded river.

"We have this terrible, terrible accident that happened here this morning," Kitui governor Charity Ngilu told reporters. Witnesses said the driver had stopped to negotiate the river, and was close to the other side when the bus was swept beneath the churning currents.

 

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