Kenya: an ambulance plane crashes on houses near Nairobi

At least six people died and two were seriously injured when an ambulance plane crashed Thursday afternoon on houses in the suburbs of Nairobi, local authorities were learned.

On the plane, “we lost four people, including the pilot. The house on which he fell had serious injuries and two people also died, “Henry Wafula, the director of the County of Kiambu, was held to the press. He also reported two people, including an old lady, severely injured, who were evacuated to a hospital.

At the scene of the accident only remain scattered pieces of the aircraft and completely annihilated houses, which he struck, noted an AFP team on site. An excavator dug the ground, under the eyes of hundreds of onlookers. In the crowd, a woman, who lived in one of the destroyed houses, howled: “My son, my son”.

The plane, who left a small airport in the center of Nairobi, was to join Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, said in a statement the airline company Amref Flying Doctors, to whom the aircraft belonged. “At the time of it, we completely cooperate with the air authorities and the emergency teams to establish the facts,” continued the boss of this company, Stephen Gititar, in this text.

An Ambulance of Amref Flying Doctors was present at the scene of the accident, around which the staff seemed shocked, one of his sobing employees.

“The plane caught fire in the air” and then crashed “in a place where there were about 12 houses,” Tasha Wanjira, a resident of Kiambu, told AFP. “The plane passed very close to our building and made it tremble,” said Irene Wangui, another resident, who narrated having seen “bodies of bodies scattered everywhere” after the crash.

“I lost everything,” Margaret Wairimu, whose house, has burned in tears in AFP in AFP. “But thank God, my children were not around,” she added.