Kenyan plane carrying flood aid has crashed in Somalia
A Kenyan plane from Djibouti carrying humanitarian aid has crashed at an airport in central Somalia on Tuesday.
The plane crashed at Beledweyne Airport, also known as Haaji-shiekh hamud hasan Airport, in the area of Hiran leaving a thick black smoke visible for miles.
“The plane crashed just as it landed. We managed to rescue three people before it burst into flames,” a local in the area told local media, without giving any more details on whether there were other passengers inside the plane or not.
Locals could be seen on top of the crashed plane with buckets of water trying to put out a large fire that engulfed the plane.
An official statement twitted by an Aviation Safety Network which monitors aircraft accidents says that the plane was “A Kenyan DHC-8 aircraft [which] crashed and burst into flames at Beledweyne Airport, Somalia. Reportedly everyone on board survived the accident.”
Local media reported that the plane was carrying humanitarian aid for people displaced by floods in Beledweyne.
The cause of the crash which happened just minutes before it landed is not yet known.
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