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Rose Nyawira: Sergeant in KDF chopper crash buried in Kirinyaga

Johnson Muriithi By Johnson Muriithi Published on: April 25, 2024 12:18 (EAT)

Sergeant Rose Nyawira’s coffin is displayed on April 25, 2024, at the burial of the military officer who died in a Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) helicopter crash on April 18, 2024. | PHOTO: JOHNSON MURIITHI/CITIZEN DIGITAL

Sergeant Rose Nyawira, a military officer among the personnel who died in the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) helicopter crash on April 18, 2024, was buried on Thursday in Kirinyaga County.

Sergeant Nyawira was among the nine who passed on together with the Chief of the KDF, General Francis Ogolla.

She was General Ogolla's photographer and hails from Kagio town in Mwea West.

“We have been preparing for her burial with several people attending and today is her burial in my Kagio home,” Sergeant Nyawira’s father Peter Wachira Kariuki told Citizen Digital ahead of the burial.

On the other hand, Senior Sergeant John Kinyua Muriithi who died in the crash will be buried on Friday, according to his father Josphat Muriithi.

Kinyua hails from Kirimunge village in Kirinyaga Central.


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