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Nigeria crash update: Airline license suspended
Professor David Oke, the chief medical director of the hospital, told the dozens of relatives and diplomats gathered there that at least 29 had already been identified.
Federal and state authorities have discussed using DNA testing to identify other bodies, though that likely would require massive assistance from laboratories outside of the country.
“We are aware there are more coming in and there are some bodies in our other hospital … that are really burnt beyond recognition and may eventually need more forensic assessment,” Oke said.
Outside the hospital, Ugonna Nwoka said his uncle had been aboard the Dana Air flight that went down in a congested neighborhood on Sunday, turning much of it to rubble. The uncle, who worked for the country’s aviation ministry, suddenly needed to travel to Lagos and picked the Dana flight, Nwoka said.
Nwoka said he tried to go to the crash site on Monday but was pushed away by security forces.
“We stayed for hours trying to plead to see what happened,” Nwoka said. Asked why he needed to see the crash site, Nwoka said if he didn’t it would be “all like a dream, like a drama, like it’s not real.”
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