Body of Irish aid worker recovered

The body of Ms Daphne Kilroe (57), the Irish-born aid worker who died in Sunday's Kenya Airways crash off the Ivory Coast in …

The body of Ms Daphne Kilroe (57), the Irish-born aid worker who died in Sunday's Kenya Airways crash off the Ivory Coast in West Africa, has been recovered.

Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made, but Ms Kilroe's daughters, Tamasin and Louise, are to fly to Abidjan next weekend. They will bring their mother's remains home to Jersey, where she had been living since 1960.

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