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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 11 March 2020

In this photo taken Friday, March 5, 2020 a visitor pretends to
hold the structure up at the upside-down house in Hartbeespoort,
South Africa.
Associated Press
South Africa's

'upside down' house

attracts tourists Relatives in buses arrive to attend the memorial service for the one-year anniversary of the crash
of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 in the rural Tulufera area near Bishoftu, south-east of the capital
Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Tuesday, March 10, 2020.
Associated Press HARTE- meters (47 miles) north of Associated Press
BEESTPOORT, South Africa Johannesburg, the house Somber events mark first anniversary
(AP) — With its roof on the is inverted on the outside
ground and its floor in the and inside. Visitors take pic- of Ethiopian crash
air, an upside down house tures of themselves in rooms
is attracting tourists who that have sofas and chairs By ELIAS MESERET
want to see the world from hanging from the ceiling. nose-dived into the earth. barren patch of land.
different perspective. The kitchen is also upside Associated Press "It was very chaotic and we The Ethiopian crash came
Located near Harte- down with appliances ap- TULUFERA, Ethiopia (AP) — were in distress," Tsegaye almost five months after a
beestpoort, about 75 kilo- pearing to defy gravity.q Grim-faced, visibly grief- Workineh, who said he was strikingly similar crash in In-
stricken, some crying, one of the first people to donesia of the same model
Bus collision in Ghana hundreds of family mem- reach the crash site, told aircraft. Together the two
Tuesday The Associated Press on crashes led to a ground-
bers
gathered
kills at least 29 people for a memorial service at Tuesday. "It is a sight that I ing of all Boeing 737 Max
the site where one year will never forget in my en-
jets, more than 380 planes
ago an Ethiopian Airlines tire life. You're lucky that used by more than 50 air-
By FRANCIS KOKUTSE jet crashed into the rocky you haven't seen it. It was lines around the world.
Associated Press ground, killing all 157 on very shocking." Boeing initially expressed
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Two buses burst into flames board. Big buses and smaller vehi- confidence that the planes
after colliding in central Ghana, trapping passengers The area of the disaster, cles arrived on a newly built would soon be returned to
inside and killing at least 29 people early Monday, lo- about 40 miles southeast of dirt road for the service service, but no date has
cal government officials said. Addis Ababa, the capital, where large tents have been set.
The buses collided in the Bono East region near Kin- was closed to the press as been erected. In an interim report re-
tampo, Kintampo North municipal chief executive buses brought family of the Flight 302 took off from leased Monday, Ethiopian
Micheal Sakodie-Baffoe said. victims to the commemo- Addis Ababa airport the investigators mostly blame
The vehicles burst into flames after the crash, trapping ration, sponsored by Ethio- morning of March 10 last Boeing for the crash, saying
the passengers inside, local council representative pian Airlines and Boeing, year and the pilots quickly there were design failures
Mathias Taasun said. the maker of the jet. reported problems and in the flight-control system
Sakodie-Baffoe said the victims’ bodies were so bad- Residents of the rural Tu- sought permission to return which repeatedly pushed
ly burned it would be difficult to identify them. The lufera area, near Bishoftu, to the airport. They strug- the nose of the plane
country may hold a mass burial for people who died, took a break from fetching gled but failed to control down. The report also said
he said during a visit to the crash site. q water and milking cattle, the plane, which six min- Boeing had offered inad-
to remember when the jet utes after takeoff hit the equate training for pilots.q