Kenyan Presidential Candidate, Five Others Die in Air Crash
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Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti, who planned to run for the presidency next year, was among six people killed today in a helicopter crash, the presidency said.
Saitoti, 66, Assistant Internal Security Minister Orwa Ojode, two pilots and two bodyguards died when the aircraft crashed in Ngong Forest on the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi, Presidential Press Service spokesman Isaiah Kabira said in a phone interview. The incident is being treated as an accident, Prime Minister Raila Odinga told reporters at the crash site.