Nigeria crash: Getting Indians' bodies back to take time

New Delhi - With families of the two Indians killed in the Nigeria air crash upset over the delay in getting the bodies back, the Indian government Friday said they may have to wait more as it could take some more time to identify the bodies through DNA tests. "In the case of the two Indian nationals, our understanding is unfortunately that the remains are not in a condition where you can easily identify them," external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin told reporters here. "So, they will need (go through) a process of examination, including DNA testing and matching of that test. This is likely to take time, given the facilities there for this sort of a thing," he said. Mahendra Singh Rathore, the co-pilot, and Rijo K. Eldhose, a young computer engineer from Kerala, were among the 153 people who perished when the Dana Airlines plane crashed in Lagos Sunday. The Indian mission in Lagos has been in touch with the...

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Peru searchers recover bodies of all 14 victims killed in helicopter crash in snowy Andes

OCONGATE, Peru — A police rescue team on Sunday recovered the bodies of all 14 people who died in a fiery helicopter crash high in the snowy Andes, and Quechua Indians from nearby villages helped...

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Nigerian air crash: Relatives of victims reject mass burial, 50 Bodies Identified

Relatives of the passengers in the Dana Air plane that crashed in Lagos have kicked against a proposed mass burial for unidentified victims deposited at Mainland Hospital, Ebute-Metta. Out of the 153 passengers who died, only 50 have been identified as at yester-day, seven days after the plane crashed in the outskirts of Lagos. Of the 50 identified bodies, 29 are males, 17 females and four babies. The affected relatives made their views known yesterday at a closed door meeting with Governor Babatunde Fashola at the Lagos House, Ikeja. A relative of one of the unidentifiable victims, Johnson Akanji, informed Daily Trust after the meeting that the Lagos State governor had touted the idea of mass burial to be carried out by the state government, but some of the affected families, particularly foreign nationals, rejected the plan. According to him, Indians and Europeans whose relations died in the crash did not subscribe...

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