A South Sudanese piloting graduate dies in Nairobi

April 8, 2016 (KAMPALA) – A South Sudanese student who was under piloting training in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has been killed by aircraft propeller which hit her on Thursday.

A 19-year old Nyiwalla Peter Lau was in Kenya from some years pressuring her piloting carrier.

According to the family source, on Thursday was her last day of her graduation with a certificate in piloting.

“Her body will be soon brought back to South Sudan and will be laid to rest in family home town of Mapel,” a member of the funeral organizing committee told Sudan Tribune on Friday.

“It is a great sadness to us as the whole family to lose such a fruitful young daughter to such a tragic accident,” he said.

(ST)