NAIROBI 4 Mar (ANA) - A pilot of Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto and four Americans have died in a helicopter crash on an island in north-western Kenya, police say.

 

The helicopter, flown by Captain Mario Magonga, came down at around 17:00 GMT on Sunday in the Central Island National Park in Lake Turkana, a popular tourist site which is on the Unesco list of endangered World Heritage Sites.

 

The cause of the crash is still unclear, and the US nationals have not yet been named.

 

Security teams have been dispatched to the scene to assist with recovery of the wreckage and the bodies.

 

This crash comes barely three weeks after a light fixed-wing craft came down in a forest in Kericho in the Rift Valley, killing all five people on board.

 

A local newspaper has shared pictures of Captain Magonga while on duty.(ANA)

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