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Family buries soil as they mourn mother in Ethiopian plane crash

Simon Munyao holds the remains of his wife Ann Mukui.[ Steve Nzioka, Standard]

The charred soil that weighed a kilogram was placed into a small casket that measured one feet in length and half a feet in width, as the symbolic burial took place.

The soil that was retrieved from the site where the Ethiopian airlines plane crashed, symbolised the body of Ann Mukui Munyao.

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