Two German tourists and two Kenyan pilots were killed when an aircraft carrying tourists crashed in Kenya’s Maasai Mara game reserve, local police said yesterday.
Airstrip workers and locals rushed to the crash site and pulled survivors out of the mangled wreckage. There were 11 tourists on board the aircraft, all of them German.
Peterson Maelo, the Narok district police chief in the East African country, said a middle-aged man and an elderly woman were killed along with the two pilots.
“The twin-engine plane nose-dived about one kilometre (0.62 mile) from the air strip and landed in a marshland,” Mr Maelo said.
The nine survivors, the police chief said, had been airlifted to the capital, Nairobi, and three were in a serious condition. – (Reuters)
