Four people were killed when a cargo plane crashed moments after taking off at the main airport in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
Soldiers at the scene of the crash The Fokker 50 aircraft, which was loaded with the stimulant Khat, plunged into a residential building.
The pilot, flight engineer and two passengers were killed but police say no-one on the ground was hurt.
It's thought the plane may have hit an electrical pole The plane took off from Joshua Nkomo International Airport at 4.15am and two minutes later radioed the control tower to say it was struggling to gain height.
Preliminary investigations found it may have hit an electrical pole before coming down in the Embakasi area.
Police and firefighters sift through the wreckage No other details were immediately available on the possible cause of the crash.
The plane was transporting the Khat to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
An inquiry has begun to find out the cause of the crash Khat is popular in parts of the Middle East and Africa but is banned in the UK and most other EU countries.
In the US it is classified as a dangerous narcotic. Users chew the leaf to produce a mild high.
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