Pak nationals fail to identify bodies of kin

Panipat, Feb 21 (UNI) Frantic efforts were on to identify the victims of the Samjhauta Express blasts even as nine Pakistanis, who arrived here this morning failed to recognise their kin among the bodies lying at the Civil hospital here today.

Only 18 of the bodies have been identified so far. Thirteen of these bodies are of Pakistanis while others are of Indians, officials here said.

A group of nine people from Pakistan arrived here this morning but they failed to identify their relatives who were missing since the Samjhuata blast on Sunday night.

They later left for Delhi to look out for their kin amomg the injured passengers who were admitted to the Safdarjang hospital there.

Meanwhile, the administration has started taking DNA samples of those relatives who could not find their kin among the dead as well as the injured.

DNA samples of the unidentified bodies had been taken yesterday for their identification by matching them with the samples of their relatives.

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