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4 dead after cargo plane crashes in Kenya capital

By Tom Odula
Published July 2, 2014 12:13pm ET
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4 dead after cargo plane crashes in Kenya capital
A pile of mild stimulant drug Khat llies beside the wreckage of a Fokker 50 cargo plane after it crashed into a building on take-off at Kenyatta International Airport, in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. According to a police official said Joseph Ngisa, the airport's head of police investigations, four people aboard the plane were killed when their cargo plane crashed, transporting the mild stimulant drug known as Khat to the Somali capital of Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi) | Khalil Senosi

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Four people were killed when a cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff at the international airport in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, a police official said Wednesday.

The Fokker 50 aircraft transporting the mild stimulant known as Khat to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, crashed into a commercial building after taking off from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport early Wednesday, said Joseph Ngisa, the airport’s head of police investigations.

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