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Toronto – A plane crash reportedly killed twelve people in Kenya on Tuesday.
The East African Standard reported that the aircraft was heading to Kichwa Tembo from Diani. It crashed in Kwale Simba locality on Tuesday morning.
The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has confirmed the incident in a statement it released on its social media page.
The statement which is attributed to Director General Emile Arao reads “Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) wishes to confirm that an aircraft registration number 5Y-CCA, on its way from Diani to Kichwa Tembo crashed at 0530Z.”
It is also stated that response personnel were deployed to the crash site.
The source also cited Kwale County Commissioner Steven Orinde to report that the county has confirmed the accident and 12 people are killed.
The cause of the accident is not established at the time of this writing. The victims, whose names are not immediately disclosed, were all foreign tourists heading to Masai Mara.
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