The 11 female members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who perished in a car crash on Saturday, February 14, will be buried on Saturday, February 21.
Late PDP women to be buried tomorrow, Feb. 21
The funeral arrangements for the deceased women were announced by the Bayelsa State Government after a meeting with families of the victims.
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A service of songs will hold at the Bayelsa Cultural Centre along Hospital Road in Yenagoa after which the victims will be buried in a mass grave.
The state government and the families of the victims decided to conduct a mass burial because the corpses had been burnt beyond recognition and a pathologist informed them that it would take six months to complete DNA testing.
The women were burnt to death along the East-West Road in Rivers State after paying a visit to First Lady, Patience Jonathan in Okrika.
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