Police this week identified nine bodies, after examining 609 human remains recovered from the site of the Mozambique plane crash.
The examination of the remains, which included comparison of dental DNA and fingerprints, is part of the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) process that was completed on Thursday last week.
The bodies are still with the Namibian police awaiting repatriation to their respective countries.
"These nine individuals are some of the passengers who were in the aircraft and thus their families will be notified individually through their governments," police deputy Inspector General James Tjivikua said.
Tjivikua also said families of the deceased requested to wait until the process is completed before the remains are repatriated.
The police are in process of obtaining more data and samples from five counties where the victims originated and once these samples have been received, further analyses will be done.
The Director of the Institute of National Forensic Science, Paul Ludik, said the institute received additional support from 10 countries in addition to those where the victims came from.
Ludik said the investigators had to overcome a number of challenges in the examination of the bodies including the state of the remains.
"Chemicals in the plane also affected the bodies and thus making it hard to identify the bodies at a faster pace," said Ludik.
Friday 20 December 2013
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