The results of the DNA tests conducted on the 12 burnt bodies of the Associated Airline crash victims are now ready.
Fifteen
people died on Thursday when the Associated plane conveying the remains
of former Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, to Ondo State for
burial crashed shortly after taking off Lagos airport on 3 October,
2013.
The boss of MIC Funeral Services, Tunji Okusanya, and his
son, Tunji Jnr., Ondo State Commissioner for Tourism, Deji Falae, and
12 others died in the crash.
However, the late Agagu’s son, Feyi, who survived the crash, was flown abroad for further medical attention.
Already,
families of the crash victims have gone to the Lagos State University
Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, to collect the bodies of their loved ones for
burial..
Though LASUTH officials refused to speak with newsmen on
the DNA tests, a highly placed source in the hospital said the DNA test
results for 12 bodies were now ready for collection as the sample
provided by their relations fully matched those of the burnt bodies.
Families
of the victims were seen filling forms and perfecting the processes for
the release the bodies of their loved ones to them.
The operator
of Taiwo Ogunsola Service, TOS Funeral, Mrs Taiwo Ogunshola, confirmed
that the DNA results were ready, saying that TOS was still working on
the bodies to ensure proper hand over to the affected families.
“You
can come back in the next few hours, they will release your relative’s
bodies to you, I can assure you. You can call me, the person in charge
is my son. I will tell him to release the bodies. We only have to
prepare the bodies for collection,” she told families of the victims.
The
State’s Chief Pathologist, Professor John Obafunwa also confirmed that
the results of the DNA tests were ready for collection.
Lagos
State Commissioner for Special Duties, Dr Wale Ahmed had said that the
results of the DNA test would “be ready by weekend and that is when the
relatives can come for the bodies. If there is any family that has
brought an ambulance to the morgue, such a family might have done so in
anticipation of the release of the body of their loved one.”
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