KWALE COUNTY, Kenya (Reuters) -Ten Hungarian and German tourists were killed along with a Kenyan pilot when a light aircraft crashed in Kenya on Tuesday.
The plane was travelling from the resort town of Diani on the Indian Ocean coast to Kenya’s Maasai Mara reserve when it crashed at about 0830 local time (0530 GMT), the aviation authority said.
Smoke rose from the wreckage of the plane, which came down in a forested area in Kwale County in Kenya’s southeast. The holidaymakers’ clothes were scattered on the ground and in nearby trees.
Kenya’s government said investigators had been sent to find out what had happened, and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban sent condolences.
Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said the eight Hungarians killed included two families, an acquaintance of theirs and two minors. Two Germans were also killed.
“Once we receive the official information on the identities of the victims, the next of kin will be notified,” Szijjarto said in a live broadcast on YouTube.
The airline, Mombasa Air Safari, said it was cooperating with the investigations.
(Reporting by Laban Walloga in Kwale County, Vincent Mumo and Humphrey Malalo in Nairobi, Anita Komuves in Budapest and David Lewis in LondonEditing by Alexander Winning, William Maclean and Peter Graff)
