(7 Aug 2025)
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Kiambu, Kenya – 7 August 2025
1. Various of search and rescue and plane debris
2. Close of plane debris
3. Various of AMREF ambulance
4. Mid of injured woman inside AMREF ambulance
5. Wide of paramedics at crash site
++NIGHT SHOTS++
6. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Muthoni Wanjiiru, eyewitness:
“We rushed to the scene after hearing the commotion and found a huge crowd gathered. That’s when we were told a plane had crashed. Soon after, we started seeing body parts – what looked like the pilot’s flesh and hands. It was then that we realized the aircraft had slammed into a house, completely destroying it. Sadly, some people also lost their lives. The search for bodies is still ongoing.”
7. Various of search and rescue
8. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Hellen Wangui, eyewitness:
“I was walking along the road when I came across body parts – including fingers, heads, and hands – scattered on the ground. Some parts of the plane were still on fire, and the smoke and heat affected many people nearby.”
9. Various of search and rescue
++DAY SHOTS++
10. Various aerials of crash site ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
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.
Witnesses at the scene told the Associated Press they had found body parts scattered around the site.
AMREF Flying Doctors said that the mid-size jet, a Cessna Citation XLS, took off from an airport in Nairobi and was heading to the territory of Somaliland when it crashed.
The service provider didn’t provide the number of casualties or a possible cause, saying in a statement that it was “cooperating fully with relevant aviation authorities and emergency response teams to establish the facts surrounding the situation.”
The plane crashed in the residential area of Mwihoko in Kiambu County, which shares a border with Nairobi.
A local official, Kiambu County Commissioner Henry Wafula, told reporters at the scene that four people on board were killed in the crash. Two other victims were inside a house into which the plane crashed, he said.
The Kenya Red Cross said that its rescue teams headed to the crash scene in Kiambu, a county that shares a border with Nairobi. Earlier, the Kenya Red Cross had said that the aircraft that crashed was a helicopter.
AP Video shot by Desmond Tiro and Jeff Kimani
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