7 People Reported Dead After Plane Crashes In Utawala, Nairobi

7 people were on Wednesday killed as cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

The plane was ferrying Miraa to Mogadishu but crashed into a building and burst into flames in Utawala area, Nairobi.

 The bodies are those of the an engineer, a pilot, and two crew members, all of them male.

Two additional bodies have been removed from the building that the cargo plane crashed into with police working to remove a third body still trapped in the damaged building.

The FOKKER 50 airplane belonging to Skyward airline took off from JKIA at 4am ferrying khat to Somalia but crashed after hitting an electric pole before plummeting into the commercial buildings in Utawala.