More than 150 people were feared dead after an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Nairobi, Kenya crashed early on Sunday.
According to the airlines’ bulletin, the Boeing 737 plane, carrying 149 passengers and eight crew members, was on regular scheduled flight to Nairobi when it crashed at around 8:44am Sunday.
The plane took off from Addis Ababa at 8:38am local time, and crashed shortly after.
At this time, search and rescue operations are in progress and there still no confirmed information about survivors or any possible casualties, it added.
Although there are still no confirmation on the status of the passengers and crew, the Ethiopian prime minister’s office have already expressed “its deepest condolences to the families of those that have lost their loved ones on Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737.”