A multi-vehicle road crash in Kenya kills at least 17 people, according to multiple outlets. The victims are described as mostly Catholic pilgrims travelling to a prayer site when their vehicles collide on a highway.
Several reports place the crash on the route linking Nairobi with the coastal city of Mombasa. Al Jazeera adds that the incident occurs in the Salama area, about 90 km southeast of Nairobi. While the outlets largely agree on the death toll, the fact that most passengers are pilgrims, and the general location along the Mombasa highway, they vary slightly on the exact number reported in one account (13) versus others (17). Authorities are cited as stating that the pilgrims were heading to a religious site at the time of the crash.
