Netherlands and Malaysia working together to identify victims of crash


PETALING JAYA: The Dutch Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team has begun screening and tagging the bodies of those killed in the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash together with the Malaysian crime investigation team and the Special Malaysian Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (SMART).

Health director-general Datuk Seri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Ministry’s Forensic department head Dr Mohd Shah Mahmood and Dr Ilham Haron (armed forces forensic odontologist) had accompanied the bodies to Amsterdam.

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