{"id":12598,"date":"2025-08-28T08:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/train-bus-collide-in-central-kenya-four-killed\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:53","slug":"train-bus-collide-in-central-kenya-four-killed","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/train-bus-collide-in-central-kenya-four-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Train, bus collide in central Kenya, four killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenya Pipeline Company, whose bus was involved in the accident, said it was carrying staff finishing their morning shift at a training centre near the town of Naivasha.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All injured staff have been evacuated to hospitals within Naivasha for medical attention,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It added that it would organise airlifts for those critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>A Red Cross worker at the scene told Reuters that so far emergency teams had recovered four bodies from the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya Pipeline Company did not say how many people had been killed or injured.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Standard\u00a0<\/em>newspaper cited a police commander as saying at least six people had been killed and scores injured in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12599,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-12598","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"A train and a bus collided on a railway crossing in central Kenya on Thursday, killing at least four people and injuring others.||A train and a bus collided on a railway crossing in central Kenya on Thursday, killing at least four people and injuring others.","published_date":"2025-08-28 00:00:00||2025-08-28 00:00:00","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18128,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12598\/revisions\/18128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}