Nepal's Grim DNA Puzzle to Identify Flood Dead

Nepal uses DNA testing to identify flood victims

Nepal uses DNA testing to identify flood victims after catastrophic Himalayan floods left thousands missing and bodies difficult to identify. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Nepal’s grim DNA puzzle to identify flood dead

At Nepal's two forensic laboratories, experts are working to profile samples and build a database on a scale they have never handled before.

Nepal's grim DNA puzzle to identify flood dead

"I searched for him everywhere, but I could not find his body," 53-year-old Ram told AFP, still waiting for answers about his son Suroj Kumar, a garage mechanic in Betrawati, which was swamped by the floods. Nepal was overwhelmed by the sheer scale of destruction from the tsunami-like wall of freezing water and debris triggered by a glacial and rock collapse on the Nepal-China border on August 26. The scale of the identification task is immense.…

Japan relief workers help to identify Nepal flood victims

Disaster relief teams are still hard at work in Nepal, more than a month after a landslide on the China border triggered massive flooding. The Japanese government is assisting with one of the big challenges -- victim identification.