Lit candles flickered from end to end, flowers placed at strategic points as a loud silence and sombre mood engulfed the precincts of the church. Milka lost her son, 27-year-old Sidrak Getacha, in the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 plane crash on March 10 that claimed killed 157 people. PEOPLE HUGGEDHer grief was palpable as her every word pierced through the hearts of hundreds, including dignitaries key among them ambassadors drawn from the affected countries, who had gathered at the church to remember the plane crash victims. Lit candles flickered from end to end, flowers placed at strategic points as a loud silence and sombre mood engulfed the precincts of the church. The preacher ended the service saying: “The exchange of the lit candles is a symbol that the candles of the departed ones will burn throughout, inextinguishable.”

Source: Daily Nation March 17, 2019 14:55 UTC