Finbarr O'Reilly, an award-winning photojournalist for Reuters based in Dakar, covered the search for the wreckage of a Kenya Airways plane that crashed in Cameroon, West Africa, last week. In the following story, slugged BC-WITNESS-CRASH/ and headlined "WITNESS-Horror of Kenya Airways crash hits close to home", he reports on his trek to the crash site and the emotions the story stirred.

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