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DOD asks families of missing KDF soldiers to go for DNA tests to help identify bodies

Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces Gen. Samson Mwathethe (left) and Kenya Defence Forces Army Commander Lieutenant General Leonard Ngondi addressing the press at Department Of Defence last week. PHOTO: FILE

ELDORET: The long and agonizing wait for families that had their relatives working as Kenya Defence Forces in El Adde Camp in Somalia could likely come to an end after receiving communication from the Department of Defence (DOD).

Two families in Lelmokwo location Nandi County told The Standard that DOD officials called them on Friday evening and asked them to provide specimen samples at the Defence Forces Memorial Hospital in Nairobi to assist in identifying some of the badly mutilated bodies.

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