Dana air crash: Victims’ families plan burial rites

Notwithstanding on-going DNA tests being conducted on victims of Sunday June 3rd Dana plane crash, some families of the deceased have decided to go ahead with burial rites for their loved ones with or without their bodies.

Some of these families, who would rather not have their names in print, told National Mirror that going ahead with the burial rites even in the absence of the bodies would enable them put the ugly incident and subsequent pains behind and move on with life.

It will be recalled that a week after the crash, the Lagos State Government withheld the bodies on the grounds that DNA tests should be conducted on them for identification purposes in order to avoid giving bodies to wrong families which will subsequently brew controversies.

Until the decision was taken, there were controversies and confrontations among some family members over the rightful owners of the victims’ bodies, which led to an embittered relative attacking some officials of the Lagos State Univer-sity Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) morgue with a machete.

Meanwhile, the management of Dana Airline said yesterday that investigation into the cause of the accident is still ongoing, even as it promised to continue to offer assis-tance to the investigating authorities.

Wednesday 27 June 2012

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