burial

“I had so much metal inside me, I thought I wouldn’t need a burial when I died—the undertaker could just pop me in the recycling bin,” he quips in “Last Rites.”

When authorities finally handed his body over to his mother days after his death, she said she was pressured to agree to a secret burial.

Goren is one of the many hostage family members who are eager to see a deal that will bring home the remains of their loved ones for burial.

Hundreds of mourners walked with coffins draped in colourful cloth into the compound of the Arerti Mariam church while clerics conducted burial rituals.

It also reminded residents that leaving litter or waste behind at the cemetery was a criminal offence and said there would be "strict monitoring and enforcement" to preserve burial sites.