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  2. Malawi announces state funeral and 21 days of mourning for ...

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    The Malawi government said Wednesday that Vice President Saulos Chilima will be honored with a state funeral after he died in a plane crash along with eight other people. President Lazarus ...

  3. Nine nights - Wikipedia

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    Nine-Night, also known as Dead Yard, is a funerary tradition originating from the Asante people of west Africa and practiced in several Caribbean countries (primarily Jamaica). It is an extended wake that lasts for nine days, with roots from the Akan culture during 9 day period of observing the dead known as Dabɔnɛ (say: dah-boh-neh). [ 1 ]

  4. Death flights - Wikipedia

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    A five-year trial (nicknamed the "ESMA mega-trial" or "Death Flights trial") of 54 former Argentine officials accused of running death flights and other crimes against humanity (lesa humanidad) heard 830 witnesses and investigated the death of 789 victims. A verdict was reached on 29 November 2017: 29 defendants were sentenced to life in prison ...

  5. Annual Customs of Dahomey - Wikipedia

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    During the ceremony, around 500 prisoners would be sacrificed. As many as 4,000 were reported killed in one of these ceremonies in 1727. [5] [6] [7] Most of the victims were sacrificed through decapitation, a tradition widely used by Dahomean kings, and the literal translation for the Fon name for the ceremony Xwetanu is "yearly head business". [8]

  6. A day that shocked the world: Photos capture stunned planet ...

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    Investigators head into the debris field at the site of a commercial plane crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001. The crash is one of four planes that were hijacked as part of a ...

  7. 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft involved, manufactured in 1987, [3] was a Dornier 228-228(K) which belonged to the Malawi Air Force.The aircraft had accumulated 3,492 flight hours. [4] It had previously been used to transport President Lazarus Chakwera several times and had conducted its previous flight hours before the crash.

  8. Dozens of hearses take Colombia plane crash victims toward ...

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  9. List of mortuary customs - Wikipedia

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    Funeral coin is used for coins issued on the occasion of the death of a prominent person, mostly a ruling prince or a coin-lord. Funeral games are athletic competitions held in honor of a recently deceased person. [12] Funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant ...