Kenya’s army chief, Gen Francis Omondi Ogolla, has died after a army helicopter crashed within the west of the nation, the president has introduced.
Gen Ogolla was within the helicopter alongside eleven different army personnel. Solely two individuals survived.
In a information convention, President William Ruto stated it was a “tragic second”.
He had earlier convened an pressing assembly of the nation’s safety council.
The helicopter got here down in Kenya’s Rift Valley, within the west of the nation, and burst into flames, in accordance with native media experiences.
Rescue and restoration groups have been dispatched to the positioning of the crash.
