Relatives of people missing after Thursday’s missile attacks in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia have sent DNA samples to help authorities identify the dead, according to a Ukrainian police chief.
“Fourteen relatives of missing persons sent in their biological samples,” Ihor Klymenko, head of Ukraine’s National Police, said in a statement on Facebook.
“Our experts have already performed more than 200 comparisons of selected DNA profiles. Twelve of the 19 people identified were recognized with the help of this rapid DNA identification technology,” added Klymenko.
Eight people are still missing, Klymenko’s statement said.
Klymenko also gave details of the three children who died in the attacks – a 4-year-old girl, whose mother is in hospital, and two boys, ages 7 and 8.
“One of the boys was being examined at the medical center at the time of the attack. He died along with his mother. Another was waiting for his uncle in a parked car and fell into a fire trap. A relative of this boy was thrown away by the shock wave, he is now hospitalized,” Klymenko said.
Source: CNN Brasil
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