THE Lagos State government will this morning start the release of 132 bodies of Dana plane crash victims.
The charred bodies are to be given in batches and in alphabetical order from today till Saturday to the families. The identities of the bodies scheduled for release have been pasted at the information centre of the Dana Air Crises Centre at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, (LASUTH), Ikeja.
Families and friends of the victims and representatives of the state government at a meeting yesterday in LASUTH heard that 132 bodies had been fully identified through their DNA samples tested abroad while 16 others have not.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, told The Guardian that the bodies would be released in batches to reduce chaos, “as there are other documents that they are going to fill for legal reasons.”
“These include the issue of next of kin, who authorises releases and the processes of release. We are releasing...
