Accidents plague gathering: Archbishop (David Gitari) escapes death on Kenyan road.Nairobi Nairobi (nīrō`bē), city (1996 pop. 3,000,000), capital of Kenya, S Kenya, in the E African highlands. Nairobi is Kenya's largest city and its administrative, communications, and economic center. It is the trade and distribution center for a productive agricultural area specializing in coffee, tea, and cattle. Anglican Archbishop of Kenya David Gitari escaped death by a whisker when his vehicle collided with a police car in September. The accident occurred when the outspoken clergyman was travelling from his rural home in Kirinyaga District to Nairobi. The vehicles were travelling in the same direction and collided after negotiating a sharp turn on Thika highway near Thika town. The crash left Archbishop Gitari, his driver, and two traffic officers in the police car badly shaken but otherwise unharmed. It was the third accident involving Anglicans in two weeks. Earlier, five women from Kakamega and a 6-year-old child were killed when their bus crashed near Chepsir market, 20 kilometres from Kericho Town, as they were travelling to Mombasa Mombasa (mŏmbă`sə, –bä`sə), city (1990 est. pop. 537,000), capital of Coast prov., SE Kenya, mostly on Mombasa island in the Indian Ocean and partly on the mainland (with which it is connected by a causeway). It is Kenya's chief port and an important commercial and industrial center. for a five-day convention of the Anglican church's Mothers' Union. After the Mothers' Union gathering, two other women were injured in another road accident at Makindu while returning to Kirinyaga. |
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