Autopsy Held on Spot; Samples of Charred Bodies Sent for DNA Test
The bodies have been carefully packed and shifted to the Government General Hospital (GGH), Kurnool: Reports
Vijayawada:The forensic doctors said that all the 19 dead bodies have been charred beyond recognition and even caused a lot of difficulty for their family members to identify them in the Kurnool bus mishap.
The forensic doctors from the government hospital in Kurnool arranged a makeshift mortuary at the place where the bus was gutted in the mishap and conducted post-mortem on all 19 dead bodies. They have said that the passengers might been exposed to even beyond 1,000 degrees Celsius heat soon in the mishap given the fact that no dead body was intact and they could find only the burnt flesh, bones and teeth from where they collected DNA samples and blood samples of the family members or close relatives and sent them to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Mangalalgiri through the police for matching them and to submit a report to the government.
Based on such a report, the government will hand over the still unclaimed bodies of the deceased to their family members or close relatives.
A senior forensic doctor who attended the post-mortem said, “It is very tragic that the dead bodies of the passengers were charred like a charcoal due to high intensity of heat generated in the fire mishap and not a single body was intact as they found only parts like trunk, limbs, skull and teeth to collect tissue samples for DNA test as it is only the scientific evidence to identify the deceased.”
