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Medics attend to students who were injured during an accident along Senya-Ahero Highway. the learners from St Joseph's Kemasare and Nyameru Secondary Schools in Nyamira were headed to Kisumu Girls for this year's Nyanza Regional Drama Festivals on Sunday morning. [Stanley Ongwae, Standard]

More than 40 students from Nyamira cheated death Sunday morning after a school bus they were travelling rammed into a building at Senta Junction along the Oyugis-Sondu-Ahero Highway.

The students from St Joseph's Kemasare Mixed, 28 and Nyameru Secondary 16 were travelling in a Kemasare school bus alongside six teachers to Kisumu Girls High School, where this year's Nyanza Regional Schools Music Festivals were happening at around 6 am when the vehicle lost control at the Senta Junction and rammed into a building at the roadside.

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