Kenya Airways crash: 114 killed

A Kenya Airways airliner that crashed Saturday after taking off from Douala airport in Cameroon on a flight to Nairobi, was carrying 82 Africans, 21 Asians, seven Europeans, one US citizen and three others, the company said Saturday.

Kenya Airways said a total of 114 people were on board the Boeing 737-800 travelling from Abidjan to Nairobi, via Douala, including 105 passengers and nine crew.

The nationalities are: 35 Cameroonians, 15 Indians, nine Kenyan crew members, seven South Africans, six Chinese, six Ivorians, six Nigerians, five Britons, three Nigerians, two from the Central African Republic, two from the Democratic Republic of Congo, one US citizen, one Swiss, one Swede, one Malian, one Togolese, one Ghanaian, one from the Comoros, one from Mauritius, one Senegalese, one Congolese from Congo-Brazzaville, one Egyptian, one Tanzanian, one from Burkina Faso and two from Equatorial Guinea.

AFP