A plane has crashed in a residential area outside Kenya’s capital killing at least six people.
The mid-sized jet, which belonged to an air ambulance service, had taken off from an airport in Nairobi and was heading to the territory of Somaliland.
The Cessna Citation XLS plane crashed into buildings residential area of Mwihoko in Kiambu County, which shares a border with Nairobi.
The service provider, AMREF Flying Doctors, did not provide a number of casualties or a probable cause of the crash.
It said in a statement that it was ‘cooperating fully with relevant aviation authorities and emergency response teams to establish the facts surrounding the situation.’
A local official, Kiambu County Commissioner Henry Wafula, told reporters at the scene that four people on board were killed in the crash.
Two other victims were inside a house into which the plane crashed, he said.
The Kenya Red Cross said that its rescue teams headed to the crash scene in Kiambu, a county that shares a border with Nairobi.
Earlier, the Kenya Red Cross had said that the aircraft that crashed was a helicopter.
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