KENYA: AT LEAST 13 PEOPLE ARE KILLED AFTER TWO BUSES COLLIDE AND PLUNGE INTO SABAKI RIVER NORTH OF MALINDI

Record ID: 981925

  • Title: KENYA: AT LEAST 13 PEOPLE ARE KILLED AFTER TWO BUSES COLLIDE AND PLUNGE INTO SABAKI RIVER NORTH OF MALINDI
  • Date: 2nd April 2000
  • Summary: (U5)SABAKI RIVER CROSSING, NORTH OF MALINDI, KENYA (APRIL 2, 2001)(KENYA TELEVISION NETWORK - NO ACCESS KENYA/INTERNET) 1. GV: RIVER FLOWING INTO OCEAN 0.05 2. MV: DIVERS /PAN TO DIVERS ON BOAT NEAR SUBMERGED BUS 0.25 3. MV: DIVERS REACHING INTO WATER 0.33 4. GV: SABAKI RIVER 0.39 5. PAN: CROWDS ON RIVER BANK 0.55 6. MV: DIVER WORKING WAY TOWARDS SUBMERGED BUS 1.05 7. SV: WORKERS TRYING TO PULL OUT WRECKAGE 1.08 8. SCU: SOUNDBITE(English) PATRICK OSARE, DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, MALINDI, SAYING: "Two buses were travelling from Tana river towards Malindi, and when reaching the bridge above us they got into a collision and dropped into the river. So far we have recovered eleven bodies. We have saved, we have managed to get out 22 people who are now in hospital recovering." 1.34 9. GV: POINT WHERE RIVER FLOWS INTO OCEAN 1.39 10. PULL OUT: INJURED MAN IN HOSPITAL 1.49 11. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(Kiswahili) BENARD (ONLY NAME), SURVIVOR, SAYING: "I started struggling to try and rescue my colleagues. But I wasn't able. At the same time, I had back pains from where I had been hit against the body of the bus. When I couldn't, I climbed on top of the engine and started shouting and inside the bus I could hear my colleagues struggling down below, dying as I was on top." 2.09 12. SCU: BANDAGED LEGS OF PATIENT 2.12 13. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(Kiswahili) UNIDENTIFIED BUS CRASH SURVIVOR, SAYING: "We stopped behind a car, after we stopped, a bus came from behind and hit us. We hit the railings on the bridge and we bounced back. We were hit again and we bounced back and we went into the water." 2.30 14. SV: INJURED MAN LYING IN HOSPITAL BED 2.34 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SABAKI RIVER CROSSING, NORTH OF MALINDI, KENYA
  • Country: Kenya
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