A bus carrying mourners back home from a funeral in southwestern Kenya has overturned and plunged into a ditch, killing at least 21 people, police said.

The bus was travelling from the western town of Kakamega to the city of Kisumu, where the accident happened.

The driver lost control of the bus as it approached a roundabout at high speed and plunged into a ditch, according to Peter Maina, a regional traffic enforcement officer for the province of Nyanza, where Kisumu is located.

“The vehicle lost control, veered, rolled onto the other side of the road,” he told reporters at the scene.

“Amongst the 21 who lost their lives were 10 women, and a girl aged 10, and 10 men,” he said.

Five people were seriously hurt in the incident, Maina said, among them an eight-month-old baby who was curr

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