SIX people have died after a medical light aircraft crashed into a residential area in Kenya.
The plane took of from Nairobi’s Wilson airport on Thursday afternoon.
A helicopter flies by as emergency personnel work at the scene[/caption]
Local police commander Anthony Keter told The Standard newspaper the horror incident happened near Morendat Farm on the northeastern side of Lake Naivasha.
“We are now looking for bodies in the wreckage.
“So far we have recovered four bodies,” a Red Cross worker at the scene said.
“We have lost four people, including the pilot… it was all fatal,” said Kiambu County commissioner Henry Wafula.
“The house that it landed on… two people again also died,” he said, and two people on the ground were “seriously injured”.
AFP images showed gathered rescuers rushing to the scene of the tragedy.
“The plane started burning while in the air,” resident Tasha Wanjira told AFP.
Another resident, Irene Wangui, said the “plane passed by our building shaking it”.
Amref Flying Doctors CEO Stephen Gitau said one of their plaes had been “involved in a fatal accident today”.
They did not provide any further details.
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