Painstaking work to identify victims’ remains

KLANG: Forensics experts and technicians are furiously combing through several hundred samples of what are believed to be human remains collected from the site of the Elmina crash on Thursday.

During a press conference at Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah here yesterday, Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said the team from the Chemistry Department, including 30 pathologists and forensics officers, had gone through a third of the 300 samples collected for the purpose of victim identification.