Kenya’s military chief among 10 people killed in helicopter crash | News

Air force sends an investigative team to establish cause of crash that killed General Francis Ogolla.

Kenya’s military chief has died in a helicopter crash in the country’s northwest, President William Ruto says.

General Francis Ogolla and nine other people were killed in the crash at 2:20 pm (11:20 GMT) on Thursday in Elgeyo Marakwet County, about 400km (250 miles) northwest of the capital, Nairobi.

The military aircraft had been on a visit to troops deployed in northwest Kenya to combat cattle rustling and came down just minutes after taking off near Cheptulel Boys Secondary School in…