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Somalia plane crash pilots buried in low-key ceremony

Two Kenyan pilots who died in an aircraft crash in Bardale, Baidoa in Somalia, were buried in a low-key ceremony in Mombasa on Thursday night.

The bodies of Mabrouk Sherman, who was flight officer and Omar Jamal Chirgdin, a flight crew, arrived at the Moi International Airport in Mombasa on Thursday evening aboard a private jet belonging to African Express, the company they were working for.

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