Nairobi, August 19 (QNA) - Ecuadorian authorities announced today that the head of Ecuador's intelligence agency Michele Sensi-Contugi and his wife were killed along with five other people in a tourist helicopter crash near Mount Ololokwe in central Kenya.
Ecuadorian Transport Minister of Infrastructure and Technology Roberto Luque confirmed the deaths of the Ecuadorian official and his wife in a post on X today, paying tribute to them and expressing condolences to their families.
For its part, the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority announced that seven people were killed when a helicopter traveling from the Loisaba Wildlife Conservancy to the Ewaso Nyiro River area crashed near Mount Ololokwe, about 250 kilometers north of Nairobi.
The incident follows a helicopter crash in western Kenya on Mar. 1, which killed six people, including a member of parliament. (QNA)