Two people have died following a road accident after a motorbike collided with a lorry along the Keroka-Masimba highway in Kisii County.

According to police, the accident claimed the lives of two young men who were on a bodaboda.

The driver of the ill-fated lorry fled the scene of the accident, leaving the two for dead.

Officers from Masimba processed the scene and took the bodies to Keroka Hospital mortuary.

A search has been mounted for the driver of the lorry.