APRNEWS - Families of the 157 Ethiopian Airlines plane disaster were at the weekend given bags of scorched earth from the crash site in place of bodies for burial.

The measure was taken because the forensic identification of bodies will last six months.

APRNEWS - Victims of Sunday’s Ethiopian airlines crash were from at least 35 nations, according to Kenya’s Transport Minister.

Kenya had 32 nationals aboard flight ET 302 which crashed Sunday morning en route to Nairobi.