Mourners gathered at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as the victims' identities started to emerge
Flight ET 302 crashed near the town of Bishoftu, 62 kilometres southeast of the capital Addis Ababa, the airline said, adding that the plane was a Boeing 737-800 MAX, registration number ET-AVJ.
Rescuers remove body bags from the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff at Hejere near Bishoftu."It is with deep sorrow that I announce that my dear wife, Blanka, son Martin and daughter Michala, died in the air disaster in Addis Ababa this morning," Slovak MP Anton Hrnko wrote on Facebook.
Also on board was at least one staff member of the UN Environment Programme meeting in Nairobi from Monday for an annual assembly of 4,700 heads of state, ministers, business leaders, senior UN officials and civil society representatives. Local militia men stand at the crash site of Ethiopia Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 en route to Nairobi, Kenya."It is expected that a least a dozen of the victims were affiliated with the UN," a UN source said, adding that freelance interpreters traveling to a UN conference on the environment might also be among the dead.In a statement, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was"deeply saddened at the tragic loss of lives.
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