Emotions ran high at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) as families of Kenyans who perished in the ill-fated the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash received their remains.
Citizen Digital reports that the plane carrying the remains of 28 out of 32 Kenyans touched down at the airport on Monday morning. The bodies were received seven months after the incident left all the passengers and members of the crew dead.
The families of the victims conducted a requiem mass at the Airport before the bodies were picked.
The kin had traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia after they were invited for the collection of DNA samples as the authorities sought to identify the bodies of the deceased.
It took a period of six months for the airline to reveal the identities of the victims. The team said that the exercise was not only time consuming but also complex.
Some of the affected families had taken the soil from the site of the accident while others insisted that they had to wait for the identification process to be complete before they could make any move.
The affected families have also sued the American Plane maker following the accident. They have also been lamenting over delayed compensation following the accident.