This morning, the office of the Ethiopian Prime Minister has announced that an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 on a regular scheduled flight to Nairobi has crashed and an unknown number of people have lost their lives.

So far, there has been no official communication from the Ethiopian Airlines and we shall give you subsequent updates immediately they surface.

Here is the post from the official Twitter handle of the Ethiopian Prime Minister.

The Office of the PM, on behalf of the Government and people of Ethiopia, would like to express it’s deepest condolences to the families of those that have lost their loved ones on Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 on regular scheduled flight to Nairobi, Kenya this morning. — Office of the Prime Minister – Ethiopia (@PMEthiopia) March 10, 2019