WINDHOEK, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Five tourists were killed when a chartered light aircraft crashed while attempting an emergency landing in a residential suburb of Namibia's capital on Friday, police and accident investigators said on Saturday.

The pilot of the Cessna 210 plane was also killed.

"I was walking home back from the shop when I saw this aircraft flying really low over our area. The next moment, it flew right into that house there," said witness Tjiruripo Tjeriko. The aircraft burst into flames on impact.

Namibian police spokesman Angula Amalunga said the six people killed, five of them believed to have been foreign tourists on their way to a lodge near Namibia's Etosha Pans game reserve, had not been identified. (Reporting by John Grobler; editing by Marius Bosch)

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