Landslide victims identified by DNA
By Huang Zhiling in Dujiangyan | China Daily | Updated: 2013-07-15 07:11
Ten victims of a landslide in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, last Wednesday have been identified by DNA comparisons.
"Medics collected 162 DNA samples from people who are looking for missing relatives and 37 DNA samples from landslide victims," said Dujiangyan's executive vice-mayor Chen Yangjie.
The landslide occurred on Wednesday in Sanxi, a village in Zhongxing, Dujiangyan, after the most severe rainstorm Dujiangyan has experienced since it began keeping meteorological records in 1954. Eight rural resorts were buried. Forty-three people perished and another 118 are missing.
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