{"id":415971,"date":"2023-04-09T10:27:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T07:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=415971"},"modified":"2023-04-09T11:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T08:36:05","slug":"truck-crash-kills-at-least-10-in-the-border-between-kenya-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/truck-crash-kills-at-least-10-in-the-border-between-kenya-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck crash kills at least 10 in the border between Kenya, Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-446 p Component-p-0-2-437\">NAIROBI, Kenya (SONNA) \u2014 A truck crashed into pedestrians an motorcycle taxis news western Kenya&#8217;s border with Tanzania, killing at least 10 and injuring 10 others on Saturday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-446 p Component-p-0-2-437\">A local police commander said the crash in the town of Migori happened along a major highway when the driver lost control of the brakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-446 p Component-p-0-2-437\">An operation to free people trapped under the truck was underway, and there were fears the deal toll might rise, Migori county commander Mark Wanjala said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-446 p Component-p-0-2-437\">Two more people were reported to have been knocked across a bridge and into a river, but an attempt to rescue them had not started, Wanjala said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-446 p Component-p-0-2-437\">Witnesses told local media the truck driver honked the vehicle\u2019s horn repeatedly before the crash. The truck was carrying bags of rice toward the Isebania border town into neighboring Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-446 p Component-p-0-2-437\">Videos of people looting the rice while people remained trapped under the track appeared on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-446 p Component-p-0-2-437\">Many Kenyans travel to their rural homes during the Easter holidays, and road accidents during the busy season are common.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-446 p Component-p-0-2-437\">Police urged motorists to exercise caution and ensure vehicles were well-serviced before embarking on long drives.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: AP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya (SONNA) \u2014 A truck crashed into pedestrians an motorcycle taxis news western Kenya&#8217;s border with Tanzania, killing at least 10 and injuring 10 others on Saturday, authorities said. A local police commander said the crash in the town of Migori happened along a major highway when the driver lost control of the brakes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":415973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-415971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415978,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415971\/revisions\/415978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}