The families of 19 plane crash victims have “forcefully” taken away as many bodies from an Edhi mortuary, without waiting for the DNA testing of the corpses to be carried out, said Edhi Foundation head Faisal Edhi. Talking to media persons, he expressed concern that taken without DNA testing, the bodies might not have been correctly identified and later, the need might arise to exhume them for the purpose of identification. He said that the families that had taken the bodies with them claimed to have recognised the deceased through personal belongings such as watches, identity cards and clothes. “But since the bodies were badly burnt, there are high chances that they were wrongly identified, considering that there are possibilities of deceased belongings getting exchanged,” he said. Faisal also alleged that an MNA from Sohrab Goth, whom he did not name, had used his influence to help one of the families take a body with them but later, after dental examination, it turned out that the body was wrongly identified. He further claimed that while the families took the bodies, police did not help Edhi workers in stopping them.
