UPDATES WITH CASUALTIES</p> <p>By Addis Getachew</p> <p>ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – All 149 passengers and eight crew on board crashed Ethiopian Airlines are dead, Ethiopia’s state broadcaster on Saturday said.</p> <p>In an earlier statement issued by the airline, Boeing 737 plane bound for Kenya was on a routine flight from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa when it crashed on Sunday morning near the central town of Bushoftu, 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of the capital.</p> <p>The communication with the flight ET-302 was lost six minutes after it took off, the statement said.</p> <p>According to the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation, the people on board the crashed plane were of 32 different nationalities.</p> <p>Most of the passengers are assumed to be Kenyans and relatives of the passengers flocked Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the capital Nairobi to get information about their loved ones.</p> <p>Fighting tears, Mary Atieno, a Nigerian woman, told Anadolu Agency: "I was expecting my husband in Nairobi. I have heard that everyone has died. I just want his body for burial, I even have no words."</p> <p> </p> <p><br>
- Magdalene Mukami in Nairobi contributed to this story.
