Plane crash kills at least six after aircraft crashes in residential area outside Kenya's capital
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 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.'
The plane crashed in the residential area of Mwihoko in Kiambu County, which shares a border with Nairobi.
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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