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Kenyan authorities began releasing the bodies of victims of a doomsday starvation cult, almost a year since the discovery of mass graves in a grisly case that shocked the world. One distraught family received four bodies that were loaded into a hearse from a morgue in the Indian Ocean town of Malindi. IMAGES
Former prime minister Boris Johnson apologises to families of Covid victims, as he began giving evidence at a UK public inquiry into his government's handling of the pandemic. "I am deeply sorry for the pain and the loss and the suffering of those victims and their families," he says at the start of two days in the witness box. Johnson, who has faced a barrage of criticism from his former aides for his indecisiveness and a lack of scientific understanding during the pandemic, is expected to admit that he "unquestionably made mistakes" during two days at the inquiry London. SOUNDBITE
In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offers his condolences to the families of victims of Russian shelling in Sloviansk, which Ukrainian authorities say killed five and injured 15. "Rescue operations are underway in Sloviansk. (...). Everything is being done to save the wounded", he adds. SOUNDBITE
Devastated families in Thailand gather for the cremation of their loved ones, killed in a nursery massacre that claimed 36 lives -- including those of 24 children. The kingdom has been stunned by the tragedy in northeastern Na Klang province, one of the worst mass killings in its history, with flags at half-mast and King Maha Vajiralongkorn visiting the families of the victims. IMAGES
On the second day of funeral rituals following a mass killing at a nursery in Na Klang district, Thailand, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha pays homage to the victims in a temple close to the nursery. Former police officer Panya Khamrab, armed with a pistol and a long knife, killed 36 people, including 24 children, in the eastern province of Nong Bua Lam Phu on Thursday in one of Thailand's worst mass killings. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).