Kenya endured a harrowing series of tragedies between August 7 and 10, 2025, as multiple road and air accidents claimed dozens of lives, reviving painful memories of past calamities that have marked August as a month of sorrow.
The deadly sequence began on August 7 with a medical air ambulance crash: a Cessna Citation air ambulance operated by AMREF plunged into a residential home near Naivasha, killing all four aboard and two people on the ground. Later that day, a Kenya Pipeline Company bus collided with a train near Naivasha, resulting in at least four deaths and numerous injuries.
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Between August 8 and 10, road accidents continued. On August 8, a bus carrying mourners overturned near Kisumu, killing 25 people and injuring many more. On August 9, a matatu and a lorry collided at Korompoi near Namanga, leaving seven dead. On August 10, a private car plummeted off the road on the Kibwezi–Kitui route, killing four returning from a dowry ceremony.
These recent tragedies echo darker days in Kenya’s history. On August 7, 1998, nearly simultaneous truck-bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam killed over 213 people in Nairobi alone and wounded thousands. August has also witnessed fatal incidents such as the 2012 ethnic clashes in Tana River, which left 52 people dead in one day. More recently, on August 21, 2010, a bus plunged off a valley in Narok, claiming 41 lives.
By Joseph Mambili
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