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		</div><h3><span style="color:#674ea7;"><i>&#8216;The family conducted a ritual at the empty grave on Saturday night. Mr Rinu said the grave would be filled since his son’s body had not been found.&#8217;</i></span></h3>
<p>Mr Salesio Rinu from Twale Village, Meru County, Kenya, was set to bury his second born son, Corporal David Gitonga, 35, on Saturday.</p>
<p>Plans to bury the soldier killed in Somalia hit a snag when the family was told that DNA samples from siblings did not match the body.<br />
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</b><b>Mourners at the funeral that was not </b><br />
<img class="photo_article" src="http://www.nation.co.ke/image/view/-/3066870/highRes/1250515/-/maxw/600/-/gpfjv8z/-/KDF.jpg" alt="Some of the mourners at David Gitonga’s funeral at Twale Village on February 6, 2016. It did not take place. PHOTO | PHOEBE OKALL | NATION MEDIA GROUP" /><br />
<span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Credit Phoebe Okall/Nation Media Group</i></span></p>
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<p>The family conducted a ritual at the empty grave on Saturday night. Mr Rinu said the grave would be filled since his son’s body had not been found.</p>
<p>Corporal Gitonga’s uncle, Dr Kaberia Limuki, told the <a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Funeral-aborts-after-DNA-mix-up/-/1056/3066872/-/7jfk3ez/-/index.html" target="_blank">daily nation</a> the family was yet to come to terms with the news. He said information received from the military was scanty and of little help.</p>
<h4><span style="font-weight:normal;"><i>“I believe he is still alive. The government should speed up investigations and tell us what happened.</i>” </span></h4>

Soldier’s family stop funeral, they got the wrong body
