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Why it will be hard for families to find closure on plane crash

 
Kenya's Director of Air Transport Nicholas Bodo, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trasport  Esther Koimett, Ethiopian foreign affairs official Hirut Zemene Sassa, Dadmawit Moge of Ethiopia's transport Ministry Ethiopia and Ambassador Catherine Mwangi of Kenya in a meeting following the air crash that killed 157 people. 
[Maxwell Agwanda/Standard]

The hope of finding closure for families of those who died in the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash appeared uncertain following reports that it will be difficult to match remains to DNA samples.

According to the authorities, it could take months for analysts to match the body parts recovered from the crash scene to DNA samples family members will provide.

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