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Naked you came, naked you go, how the Kuria bury their own

Decades ago the Kuria buried their dead naked, the way they came. [Courtesy]

In the Biblical story of Job, we are told that he cried to God saying ‘naked I came and naked I will return during his years of suffering’.

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