6 tourists killed, 27 others injured in central Kenya road accident


NAIROBI, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Six tourists were killed and 27 others injured in an accident along a busy road in central Kenya on Monday afternoon, according to a government official.

Nyandarua County Commissioner Abdrisack Jaldesa told Xinhua by telephone that a bus ferrying the tourists from Nakuru County to Nyahururu Thomson Falls in Laikipia County rolled and landed in a ditch in the Gichaka area, 41 km south of Nyahururu Town.

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