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Dar mourners breach airport to bid farewell to Magufuli

Samia Suluhu and Janeth Magufuli.

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan comforts John Magufuli's widow Janeth Magufuli at her home in Dar es salaam on March 19, 2021. PHOTO | PSU

By  BEATRICE MATERU

Tanzanians thronged the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) in Dar es Salaam on Sunday, as authorities prepared to transport the body of President John Pombe Magufuli to the capital city, Dodoma.

Thousands of mourners walked around JNIA singing ‘Magufuli Shujaa, Magufuli Shujaa' meaning 'Magufuli a hero', going from one plane to another as they looked for the plane carrying the casket.

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