Associated Aviation crash: DNA results out

• LASUTH begins releasing corpses

Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) has received the results of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) test done in the United Kingdom (UK) on sample tissues taken from corpses of victims who died in the Associated Aviation crash.

Following this, LASUTH has started releasing the corpses of the victims to members of their families, Sunday Sun gathered from a source, who doesn’t want to be mentioned. The source revealed that two corpses were collected last Friday.

When contacted on phone, the Consultant Forensic Pathologist and Chief Examiner of LASUTH, Prof John Obafunwa, said the hospital was ready to release all corpses to families that had completed the documentation process for collection of corpses.

However, he said that the “hospital has no power to determine when families will come to collect the corpses of their dead relations.”

The release of victim’s corpses was delayed so that DNA test could be done to properly identify the victims, whose bodies were burnt beyond recognition in the crash of the ill-fated aircraft, which was conveying the corpse of the late former governor of Ondo State, Chief Olusegun Agagu to Akure for burial.

Meanwhile, the Lagos State Commissioner for Special Duties, Dr. Wale Ahmed, said that the hospital has made the process for release of corpses easy, stressing that there was no reason to prevent families from collecting the corpses of their loved ones within one week, once they follow the specified guidelines.

A family member of one of the victims who was sighted filling the necessary forms expressed the hope that her relation’s corpse would be released to the family promptly.

The woman who spoke on condition of anonymity disclosed that the processes were not hectic probably owing to the fact that not too many people died in the plane crash.

However, it was gathered that one of the survivors of the plane crash died few days ago at LASUTH and had since been taken by the family for burial.