Narc Party Charity Ngilu has escaped death narrowly Friday, in Kitui protests by Kalundu market traders against the demolition of their structures.
The county fire truck crushed former mayor Martha Mwangangi to death on Friday and narrowly missed former Lands CS Charity Ngilu.
The truck driver was trying to scare away a crowd that threatened to torch a county government vehicle as it passed by Kitui Central police station.
Witnesses said the engine was headed to Kalundu centre, where the demonstrators earlier barricaded Kitui-Thika road with burning tyres.
The former Cabinet Secretary was pushed aside by her bodyguard when the truck ploughed through the crowd. Many of the protesters also escaped death narrowly.
Witnesses said the driver sped away as the rowdy crowd threatened to lynch him accusing him of murder.
Mwangangi and Ngilu went to the area in a show of support for the traders, whose shops were demolished on Thursday night by county government enforcement officers.