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Bengal Begins DNA Drive to Identify Missing Nepal Trekkers
Some people from Bengal went on a Mansarovar trek and are still missing after a flash flood in Nepal.
Their families will give blood samples at government hospitals.
The samples will be tested to create DNA profiles.
The results will be sent to Nepal.
Officials will compare them with DNA from unidentified bodies.
This may help determine whether any of the bodies belong to the missing trekkers.
At least four families have already gone to Nepal to look for their relatives.
One family said it searched hospitals but did not find the missing people.
Families of people missing after the Mansarovar trek will provide DNA samples at local government hospitals on Thursday.
Police station officers will contact families and help them reach the hospitals for sample collection.
Samples will be profiled at the state forensic laboratory before reports are sent to Nepal for matching.
Nepal has hundreds of unidentified bodies reportedly recovered after the flash flood.
At least four families have travelled to Nepal and searched hospitals for their missing relatives.
- Who
- Families of people from Bengal who remain missing after the Mansarovar trek, with assistance from Bengal police and government officials.
- What
- DNA samples will be collected and profiled to help identify unidentified bodies in Nepal.
- Where
- Samples will be collected at local government hospitals in Bengal, analyzed at the state forensic laboratory, and matched in Nepal.
- When
- Sample collection is scheduled for Thursday; the families’ search and DNA efforts were reported on Wednesday.
- Why
- To help identify bodies recovered after a flash flood and determine whether they are the missing trekkers.
Key facts
- Sample collection
- Family members will provide DNA samples at local government hospitals.
- Collection date
- Thursday.
- Testing facility
- The state forensic laboratory will conduct DNA profiling.
- Destination of reports
- DNA reports will be sent to the Nepal government.
- Identification goal
- Officials will compare the profiles with unidentified bodies recovered after the flash flood.
- Families in Nepal
- At least four families have travelled to Nepal to search for relatives.
- Search outcome reported
- One family said it searched most hospitals in Kathmandu but could not locate its missing parents.
Quotes
A senior Bengal police officer
Bengal police officer involved in coordinating the DNA collection effort
“Hundreds of bodies are still lying unidentified in Nepal. It has been decided that we will assist the family members of missing persons in providing DNA samples and sending them to the forensic laboratory for profiling. The Bengal government will then send the reports to the Nepal government for matching with the unidentified bodies.”
telegraphindia.com
“We gave our DNA blood samples at the Nepal Police Hospital on Wednesday. They took our phone numbers but could not assure us when they would provide an update on the DNA samples.”
telegraphindia.com
Sources
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