All 157 people, 149 passengers and eight crew, travelling on an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 which was crashed on Sunday morning en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi died, according to news agency Reuters.
"We hereby confirm that our scheduled flight ET 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi was involved in accident today," the airline said in a statement.
The airline said "search and rescue operations are in progress and we have no confirmed information about survivors or any possible casualties."
