Six people were killed after a light aircraft belonging to a medical charity collapsed in Kenya Kenya, Nairobi, according to a local official.
Charity Amref Flying Doctors says Cessna’s plane was removed from Thursday’s Thursday on Thursday in Somalia in a place where nairobi area.
Kiambu County Commission Henry Wafula said six people on the plane were killed, including doctors, nurses and pilots – as well as another seriously injured.
Investigators are sent to the crash scene to build its cause.
The plane is lost in radio contact and radar air traffic control just three minutes after the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority.
There are four staff and amref staff aboard, charity said.
“At this time, we worked with related authorities of aviation and emergency teams to respond to build the facts around the situation,” Amref CEO Stephen Gitaa said in a statement.
Kenya defense forces and the National Police Service deployed to the scene to perform search and repair operations.
Patricia Kombo, an eyewitness, told the BBC he was in a cab with his friends who were on his friends when they heard a loud branch ahead.
“Before I got my phone to record the flash disappeared and the smoke laid down. We heard people shouting and running and we finished our journey.
“We know it’s a plane crash and see the loose hole that ends on the ground,” he said.
In a separate incident, a train and a bus crashed in a city of Naivasha, Central Kenya, killing at least four people, according to Reuters News Agency.
The Kenya Pipeline Company, whose bus is involved in the incident, said it has carried staff who have completed their retention of training centers and that all injured staff were carried out in the hospital.
