"Family of Kenyan woman who died in Iraq last year buries banana stem"

A Kenyan family of a 47-year-old woman who died in Iraq last December has chosen to bury a banana stem after they were unable to bring back her body. Ruth Omungala from Ingusi village in Mumias, Kakamega county passed away in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. On Saturday, her family buried a banana stem in place of their deceased daughter. The family wrapped the banana stem in white and laid it on a table in a tent to symbolize the deceased’s remains...

Ms Omungala, who was working as a nanny in Baghdad, died after an illness, barely nine months after she moved to the Gulf nation. One of her Kenyan workmates, Grace Makokha said Omungala complained of vomiting anddiarrhea and died after her agent refused to take her to hospital...

Her final request was to be flown back home but the agent, identified only as Ali, said this would happen after Christmas. Her agent took no action despite being informed that she was severely vomiting.