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Why it took long for kin of plane crash victims to finally get closure

Families of 28 Kenyans who perished in the Ethiopian plane crash collect the remains at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, on October 14, 2019. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

After seven months wait, family and friends finally gathered on the slopes of Mt Kenya in Burguret village in Nanyuki, to pay their last respects to a slain former journalist.  

The remains of Anthony Ngare, a former journalist arrived home for interment on October 18. His remains had been flown four days earlier and handed over to the family which had been eagerly waiting for this moment since the horrific crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, eight minutes after take off from Addis Ababa on March 10.

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