Melinda Liu
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Jun 5, 2008 09:47 AM
With nearly 18,000 earthquake victims still missing, China's
police have mobilized an unprecedented forensic identification campaign
to help survivors learn the fate of missing relatives. The Ministry of
Public Security in Beijing organized crime scene investigators, police
photographers and other forensic experts into 22 teams that fanned out
across the quake zone. Their mission: to process unidentified corpses
and establish a DNA database that relatives can consult in the months,
or years, to come.
The scale of the task is huge. "We need more technicians and more
chemicals used in DNA analysis. That's our biggest difficulty right
now," says Wang Qinghong, vice director of the Sichuan province public
security
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