Terrified shoppers, including one reported New Zealander, huddled in back hallways and prayed the militant gunmen lobbing grenades and firing assault rifles inside Nairobi's top mall would not find them.

The group leader of a Bay of Plenty college's mission trip to Kenya was asleep when a driver-swap put a teen behind the wheel in a minivan crash that killed four people.

The former Bethlehem College student who was driving the minibus in Kenya which crashed, killing four people, was encouraged to drive.

International criminal court indictee Uhuru Kenyatta was officially declared the winner of Kenya's presidential election yesterday.

The teenager driving in the fatal Bethlehem College crash would not have been legally allowed to drive the ill-fated van.

The revelation of a teenager's part in a tragic crash in Kenya has raised more questions than it answers.

The cost of Bethlehem College hiring a PR consultant and private investigator in the aftermath of the Kenyan tragedy will be partly met by taxpayers.

A "good, kind and respected man" is how a former Bethlehem College student describes the teen who was driving the minibus that crashed in Kenya, killing four people.

A criminal law expert says he would have advised a former Bethlehem College student to keep quiet about his part in a tragic bus crash in Kenya until arriving home.

A private investigator may fly to Africa to establish who knew that an 18-year-old was behind the wheel of a minivan that crashed.

The teen who had been driving the bus that crashed in Kenya, killing four people, had "carried a very heavy burden'', according to the principal of Bethlehem College.

The ten children of a couple killed in a mini-van accident in Kenya on January 15 have paid tribute to their parents at a funeral service at Bethlehem College this morning.

One moment there was the noisy banter of a minivan packed with happy school pupils. The next, there was chaos, shock, confusion - "one big nightmare", as one put it.

The New Zealanders injured in the Kenyan minivan crash have been evacuated to the capital Nairobi while the bodies of those who died are on their way back home.

Survivors of a Kenyan bus crash lay in hospital unaware their friends were dead as a college community united to grieve for four people killed.

Lydia Hollister-Jones was good friends with Caitlin Dickson, one of four people killed in a Kenyan bus crash. She wrote a heartfelt blog about her.

A New Zealand teenager who died as a result of a bus crash in Kenya told passengers going to her aid to help others first, despite being badly injured.

Friends and family of the three New Zealanders killed in a road accident in Kenya days before their return home will gather today to remember them.

A dream trip to Kenya has turned to tragedy for students at Tauranga's Bethlehem College after a "grisly'' crash claimed the lives of three Kiwis.

Those visiting the Masai Mara Reservation for the first time are overwhelmed. But those who had visited the Mara area 30 years ago and remembers the way it was then see a different place.