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We lost our people out of  negligence – Relations

We lost our people out of negligence – Relations

Lekan Ogunsola Memorial house of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), was on Monday thrown into pandemonium as relatives to the victims of Sunday Dana plane crash besieged the premises in search of the remains of their loved ones which were brought to the hospital mortuary earlier . Some relatives found it difficult to speak to journalists as tears flew freely.

If he had known, he would have stayed back in the village – Victim’s in-law

If he had known, he would have stayed back in the village – Victim’s in-law

He was not planning to travel by air. He had never travelled by air in his entire life. He was sleeping in his bedroom. He was only a motorbike rider, popularly known as okada. But he was killed by a plane. If Mr Nwabuwa Okafor had known what fate held in store for him, he would probably have stayed back in the village with his wife and children. Nwabuawa was one of the victims living in the two storey building where the plane crashed into at Iju/Ishaga area of Lagos last Sunday, June 3, 2012.

My Encounter with soldiers at  Dana crash site

My Encounter with soldiers at Dana crash site

As the horrendous news of the Dana air crash reverberated within the week, sending mourning signals to the families, relations, friends, colleagues, offices, business associates of the victims,even the native land where they hail from; some persons and indeed, the media capped it all by referring to the ugly incident as a black Sunday because as many as 153 souls were sent to the great beyond just in a jiffy—unsung.