Six people have been killed after a light aircraft belonging to a medical charity crashed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, according to a local official.

An air ambulance has crashed into a residential area near the Kenyan capital Nairobi, killing at least six people and injuring two others, according to a local official.

AMREF Flying Doctors said that the mid-size jet, a Cessna Citation XLS, took off from an airport in Nairobi and was heading to the territory of Somaliland when it crashed. The plane crashed in the residential area of Mwihoko in Kiambu County,