Medical plane crashes metres from school killing six in Kenya

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As many as six people have been killed after a plane belonging to an air ambulance service provider plummeted into a house in Kenya.

The Cessna Citation XLS took off from Wilson Airport in Nairobi at 2.14pm today – en route to Somaliland – before air traffic control lost radio contact only three minutes later.

It was moments later that the jet crashed just metres away from Mwihoko Secondary School in Utawala.

Four people on board were killed, and two others died inside a home struck by the aircraft, Kiambu county commissioner Henry Wafula confirmed. Footage circulating on social media shows plumes of grey smoke rising from the site

Meanwhile, the wreckage of the jet