Two people killed in crash on Mombasa Road Near Salama

Two people have been killed and another injured in a road accident involving a tour vehicle and a trailer at Mlima Kiu near Salama Town, along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway in Makueni County.

Police said the crash claimed the lives of a female tourist from Belgium and the driver of the tour vehicle, who died at the scene.

A male tourist from Portugal sustained serious injuries and was rushed to hospital for treatment.

The injured tourist was picked up by an ambulance from Sultan Hamud Sub-County Hospital and taken to the facility, where the bodies of the two victims were also moved to the hospital morgue.

The tourists are said to have arrived in Kenya on Sunday and were travelling to Mombasa by road at the time of the accident.