A Hamilton man who lost his wife of seven years, his three young children and his mother-in-law as a plane crashed in Ethiopia minutes after takeoff last month said his world has gone silent.
“Every time I think of the six minutes, that’s the most painful thing,” Paul Njuguna said while speaking with CTV News Toronto on Wednesday afternoon, one month after the tragedy.
The entire family had been living in a Hamilton apartment leading up to the crash. While her family members were permanent residents of Canada, Rubi Njuguna was the only citizen as she was born in the country. “We had to provide DNA so the DNA can identify our family members. They said that will take about six months so it’s a long wait for us.”
“Initially you just leave trying to create that scene or that sight in your mind but getting to go there we got to see the nature of the crash, how intense it was and we no longer create the scene in our minds,” he said. “We no longer imagine, we just remember what we saw and it was really hard for everyone, it was really hard for me.”
Paul Njuguna said now he is trying to figure out how to move forward while remembering his loved ones.
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