Integrated teams of forensic experts to identify train victims
Egypt, Local, 2/21/2002

Egyptian Councellor Farouq Awad, Assistant Minister of Justice, head of forensic medicine at the ministry, said that integrated teams of forensic experts have been working to identify the victims of the train that caught fire while heading from Cairo to Upper Egypt.

The teams will use identification cards to identify the victims and survey the victims who do not have any.

On the burial of the victims, the Justice Ministry official said the bodies that could not be identified would be buried in mass graves.

He pointed out that the teams were conducting an autopsy on the bodies and taking fingerprints of the victims.

Citizens are still pouring from Upper Egypt to the scene to get information about the fate of their relatives.

Some of them said that they were moving among the five hospitals that accommodate the dead and injured.

They confirmed that there is difficulty in identifying the bodies of the victims as they were charred.

Meanwhile, a medical source at Al Ayyat hospital morgue said that forensic experts found difficulty in identifying the victims of the Cairo -Aswan train accident, adding that some bodies were identified either through ID cards, relatives or clothes.

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