Six of the bodies in their advance stages of decomposition were recovered in the shores off Misamis Occidental while nine others were found off Zamboanga del Norte shores.
The findings brought to a total of 1,388 number of accounted dead bodies where 737 are traced to Cagayan de Oro City, 693 in Iligan City and the remaining 45 bodies from Bukidnon, the Office of Civil Defense in Region 10 said.
It said that only 837 dead bodies were identified as of Thursday last week.
Typhoon Sendong struck midnight December 17 last year, eight days before Christmas, with a killer flash flood that overflowed in the rivers of Cagayan de Oro and Mandulog in Iligan City, clearing middle-class subdivisions, shanties and gobbling thousands of residents, most of them living along riverbanks.
“It was like a bomb exploding in the dead of the night where everyone who were sleeping were roused from their sleep only to be trapped and drowned in rampaging waters that provide survivors a deadly glimpse of the ripper,” an survivor narrated.
The OCD estimated some 6000 injured. It said that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is now conducting forensics on unidentified bodies hoping to provide clues that would established their identities.
The NBI heads the Disaster Victims Identification (VDI), comprising clustered government agencies mandated to establish identities of victims, with the employment of the latest forensic technology.
In Cagayan de Oro City, the NBI has taken 243 specimens for DNA testing, 214 gathered specimens for ante mortem data and buried 200 unidentified bodies while 121 specimens for DNA testing taken in Iligan City, processed 118 specimens for ante mortem data and buried 128 unidentified bodies. CD With wire reports.
Posted on 16 January 2012 by mdb-admin
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