A gloomy mood engulfed one family in Kuride, Makueni county on Saturday as they buried a handful of soil in place of their kin who died in the Ethiopian plane crash.
The family of Ann Mukui Musyoka put the sand in a small coffin and conducted the burial.
Ann was among 32 Kenyans who perished in the Ethiopian plane crash that claimed 157 lives earlier this month.
Her husband Simon Munyao eulogised her as a loving and kind woman.
The deceased left three kids behind aged one, five and seven years.
Munyao explained that he travelled to Ethiopia hoping to find his wives remain only to be offered a handful of scorched soil.
The Ethiopian airline offered the family of the crash victims soil to bury due to the fact that all the 157 occupants of the plane were burnt beyond recognition.
What's more, is that it will take almost six months for the process of a DNA test to be complete.
The husband reminisced how he and the children were happily waiting for her arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on the fateful day before their hopes were crushed by a phone call about the crash.
Munyao narrated how the whole family would be dead if they had accompanied her to Italy.
"I had proposed we all go with her for a vacation as she went back to work in Italy but she said we will have to plan for another day, we would be all dead," said the sobbing Munyao.
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