LAM silently buries in Namibia unidentified remains from plane crash

Six coffins, containing the unidentified remains of those killed when a Mozambican plane crashed in northern Namibia in November 2013, were buried Tuesday at the Gammams Cemetery in Pionierspark, Windhoek, reports 'The Namibian'. The event was attended by officials of the Mozambican LAM airlines that "refused to comment on the burials".The LAM aircraft crashed in the Bwabwata National Park in the Zambezi region in November 2013, while flying from Maputo to Luanda in Angola. There were 27 passengers and 6 crew members on board when the plane crashed, killing all on board. The funeral yesterday in Windhoek was attended by officials of the Mozambican LAM airline and the managing director of Avbob Namibia, the funeral parlour that carried out the burials. A Muslim cleric and a Christian pastor conducted services before the six coffins containing the remains of the deceased were lowered into three graves.
Mozambican airline officials yesterday refused to comment on the burials.
On board the plane were 10 Mozambicans, nine Angolans, five Portuguese citizens, a Portuguese-Brazilian citizen, a French citizen and a Chinese citizen. Early last year, the National Forensic Science Institute (NFSI) said there were more than 600 body parts and that they had positively identified 16 passengers.The institute also said although some families were against the repatriation of the bodies at first, they changed their minds later.