Return of air-crash victim's body may be delayed

Kochi: It might take at least a fortnight for the body of Rijo K. Eldhose, who died in Sunday's air crash in Nigeria, to arrive at his hometown Neriamangalam in Ernakulam district, family sources said.
Since the corpses of the 153 people on board the aircraft were all mangled and cannot be recognised individually, the authorities in Lagos, Nigeria, were now planning to identify the victims by matching the DNA samples of the their parents.
On being told by the Nigerian authorities to send his DNA sample, K. Eldhose, father of Rijo, left for Delhi on Wednesday.
06/06/12 The Hindu

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