No coherent mechanism used to identify crash victims bodies
MANGALORE: Twelve of the 158 passengers of the Air India Express flight killed in the May 22 crash here had to be buried in unmarked graves.
According to the district administration, the 12 bodies could not be identified because of a mix-up.
Some families took away the bodies that did not belong to them in the confusion that prevailed after the crash.
The body of Mohammed Zubair Ziad (4) was taken away by a family that believed that it was the body of an adult.
Narrating a similar incident, Vidya Dinker, an activist who was involved in the relief operations, said: One family had identified their kin and filled the claims form at the Wenlock Hospital. They then moved to another hospital to look for other relatives. By the time they came back, somebody else had taken the body.
There was no coherent mechanism to identify the bodies, and some junior policemen were handling the...
