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Four injured as newly acquired police chopper crashes in Nairobi

Wreckage of the Kenya Police chopper that crashed in Mathare, Nairobi. 

A police chopper bought at more than Sh680 million crashed Thursday evening, leaving four police officers on board seriously injured.

The chopper was overflying Mathare slums when it crashed within the National Youth Service field at about 4pm. The chopper which was unveiled in April this year at the National Police Service Airwing was badly damaged. Police said the four officers on board were on routine patrols in the city when the incident happened.

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