Kiambu County Commissioner Henry Wafula said six people on the plane were killed, including doctors, nurses and the pilot - as well as another two people on the ground, while two others were seriously injured. Investigators have been despatched to the scene of the crash to establish its cause.

A plane belonging to an air ambulance service provider crashed in a residential area just outside Kenya's capital on Thursday, killing at least six people, according to a local official and the aircraft's owner.

A light aircraft crashed in a densely-populated neighbourhood in Kenya's capital on Thursday, killing at least on person, the medical charity operating it said. The Cessna plane, run by AMREF Flying Doctors,