Transport operations have returned to normal along the Kibarani-Makupa Causeway in Mombasa after an accident on Thursday morning.
The road had been cordoned off by the police after a train ferrying petroleum products estimated derailed for the second time in two months.
Transport along areas of Changamwe, Mikindani, Port Reitz, Miritini, Jomvu, Mariakani, Magongo and Mazeras was affected with commuters being forced to trek.
According to Coast Region Traffic Commandant Emmanuel Okanda the train derailed at 5 am near Uganda Property company spilling super petrol from two wagons.
Mombasa Traffic Commandant Johnson Ipala said the spilled petrol has been cleared and that the locomotive has been cleared from the rail.
The incident comes two months after a locomotive carrying 250,000 litres of super petrol derailed at Kibarani, with five wagons capsizing into the Indian Ocean on May 20.
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