Thousands pay their respects to some of the 157 people killed when a Boeing 737 MAX 8 came down outside Addis Ababa last week.
A mass funeral ceremony has taken place for victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash, with 17 empty caskets draped in the nation's flag carried through the streets of Addis Ababa.
On Saturday, officials began delivering bags of scorched mud from the crash site to relatives of those who died - amid warnings that identifying their remains is expected to take a long time. At Bole International Airport, weeping women held white roses in their shaking hands before lunging forward, wailing in grief over caskets.On Saturday night, French air accident investigators confirmed they had successfully downloaded data from the jet's cockpit voice recorder.
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