Fourteen days after Dana flight 992 crashed in Lagos, southwest Nigeria,
killing more than 150 people,hundreds of Lagosians gathered today to
remember those who died in Nigeria’s worst air disaster in almost two
decade.
The event, organised by SEEDS,a group of 15 young men and women who
met on Facebook, held at the Muri Okunola Park in Victoria Island,
Lagos.
Families of the victims, friends, Dana Air staff and
members of Trinity House Church among others shed tears as the names of
the victims were read and their photographs displayed on giant screens.
About
153 candles, the number of passengers onboard the ill-fated plane, were
lit and a minute of silence was observed at 3.42 pm, the time, the
plane was beleived to have crashed.
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| Kate Henshaw |
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