Relatives of victims who perished in an Ethiopian Airlines crash gathered in the Ethiopian capital on Sunday (March 17) to mourn their loved ones, one week after a Nairobi-bound Boeing 737 Max 8 went down just minutes after take-off.
A woman lights a
candle during a memorial ceremony for Ethiopian Airline's seven crew members
who died in the crash.
Flight ET 302 crashed near Bishoftu
town, about 45 km
from Addis Ababa's Bole International
Airport, killing all 157
people aboard.
The memorial service included two parts,
first at the headquarters of the Ethiopian Airlines Group and the second at the
Holy Trinity Cathedral.
Senior Ethiopian government officials
and relatives of the perished crew members were also in attendence.
Thousands of others also gathered at the
Holy Trinity Cathedral, where relatives attended funeral services in accordance
with Ethiopian Orthodox church traditions.
The memorial event came amid
difficulties to provide victims' bodies to their loved ones due to the
devastating nature of the crash.
"We only have very small fragmented
human tissues, human remains. That is the most difficult part of this tragic
accident," Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO Tewolde Gebremariam told Xinhua in
a recent interview.
Grieving family members were given bags
of soil taken from the crash site.
The Ethiopian Federal Police is now
taking full control of the human remains recovered from the crash site and
Blake Emergency Services, a British-based organization, has been assigned to
help with the DNA identification process, Gebremariam said.
"It's going to take a very long
period of time," he said.
Both data and voice recorders from the crashed
aircraft have been sent to France
for further investigation into what caused the tragedy.
Source: NDO
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