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  • CSI Sichuan: Bodies of Evidence

    Melinda Liu | 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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