Four
police officers were on Thursday evening injured after their helicopter
crashed at National Youth Service (NYS) Engineering College in
Nairobi’s Mathare North area.
St. John Ambulance transferred the injured officers to Nairobi West Hospital for treatment.
Ruaraka OCS, Philip
Nkidi, said there were no fatalities even as police launched
investigations to establish the cause of the accident.
Meanwhile, another light aircraft crashed in Naivasha early Thursday with six tourists on board.
A Polish woman perished in the accident
while her five British counterparts sustained minor head and limb
injuries. They were treated and discharged from Naivasha sub-county
hospital.
A Kenyan pilot, who sustained serious burns, was flown to a hospital in Nairobi for specialized treatment.
The tourists, who were
in the country to condole with a friend who had lost his wife, were on a
Lake Naivasha viewing mission when the aircraft crashed minutes after
taking off from Kijabe airstrip