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Home Top News DNA tests to be done in Karachi as Punjab teams arrive

DNA tests to be done in Karachi as Punjab teams arrive

by News desk
May 24, 2020
in Top News

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Staff Reporter

Karachi

Sindh Health Minister Azra Pechuho on Saturday said that DNA tests of victims of the PIA plane crash will be conducted at a Karachi University lab, calling it a state of the art facility.
The provincial health minister, Sindh government spokesman Murtaza Wahab, and Sindh information minister Nasir Hussain Shah addressed a press conference in Karachi to make the announcement, after a forensic team from Punjab had arrived to collect DNA samples.
Dr Pechuho said that Sindh Governor Imran Ismail is “unaware of matters pertaining to DNA tests”, adding that the tests will be done in Sindh.
The provincial health minister said that the DNA tests will take 21 days and so far, 47 families have submitted their samples. She said that 97 people died in the crash, adding that 68 men, 26 women, and three children were among those who died. Of the deceased, the bodies of 66 are at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and 31 are at the Civil Hospital in Karachi. So far, 19 bodies have been identified.