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Kenyan minister George Saitoti 'killed in helicopter crash' Kenyan minister George Saitoti killed in helicopter crash
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Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti has been killed in a helicopter crash, Kenyan media report. Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti has been killed in a helicopter crash, officials say.
They say Mr Saitoti and his deputy, Orwa Ojode, were among six people who died when the aircraft went down in Ngong Hills just west of Nairobi. They say Mr Saitoti and his deputy, Orwa Ojode, died when the aircraft went down in Ngong Hills west of Nairobi.
Kenyan MP Najib Balala confirmed the death in a Twitter message, quoting the office of President Mwai Kibaki. There is no word on the cause of the crash. There is no word on the cause of the crash, in which at least six people died.
Mr Saitoti had been planning to run for the presidency later this year. Mr Saitoti - a former senior member of the long-dominant Kanu party and ex-vice-president - had been planning to run in a forthcoming presidential poll.
Mr Saitoti, 66, joined Mr Kibaki's National Alliance of Kenya in 2002.
No date for the election has so far been announced. Mr Kibaki's mandate ends in January 2013.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who has also announced that he would stand, has warned against the emergence of ethnically-based political groups ahead of the election.