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Jul 6
23m 58s

The Woman Who Crashed Her Own Funeral

Eleanor Neale
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Melbourne, 2015: Noela Rukundo was caught up in a kidnapping plot while visiting Burundi for a funeral. But when she came face to face with her captors, she quickly realised this was no random abduction and the motive lay much closer to home…  

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