This archive report was first published on 14 October 2019.
On October 14, 2019, the remains of 32 Kenyans who lost their lives in the tragic Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plane crash on March 10, 2019, arrived in Nairobi.
The remains were flown to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Monday morning, where a brief function was held after arrival.
Only close family members are to be given the caskets bearing the fragments of the deceased, as the bodies were severely damaged beyond recognition.
According to Interpol, the International Police through its Incident Response Team, had successfully identified the 157 passengers who boarded the plane, six months after the plane crash.
Interpol noted that the identification exercise was prompted by a request from the airlines' company and was aided by a team of 100 DVI experts drawn from 14 countries in Africa, Europe, and America.
The exercise took 50 days, during which fingerprints and DNA samples were extracted from 48 people.
Boeing, the US-based planes manufacturer, had also announced that it had set aside USD2 billion as Financial Assistance Fund for assisting families of victims of the plane crash.
