Helping The Identification Process, DVI Of National Police Gathers 17 Families Of Burn Victims At Karaoke Doubel0 Sorong

The DVI team of the National Police Health Center gathers the families of 17 victims of the Doubel0 karaoke burning in Sorong City (ANTARA)

SORONG - The Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Team of the National Police Health Center gathered the families of 17 victims of the Karaoke Doubel0 burning in Sorong city, West Papua to help identify the bodies.

The meeting which took place at 13.25 WIT at the Luxio Hotel was chaired by the Head of the Disaster Victim Identification Center for Medicine and Health of the Republic of Indonesia National Police, Kombes Ahmad Fauzi, accompanied by the Head of Public Relations of the West Papua Police, Kombes Adam Erwindi.

The meeting was to establish communication with the families of the 17 bodies to prepare what the National Police DVI team would need when identifying them.

Head of DVI, Ahmad Fauzi, in the meeting also expressed his condolences to the families of 17 victims of the burning.

He asked for family support in the process of identifying the bodies by providing supporting data because the 17 bodies of the victims of the Karaoke Doubel0 burning were charred and could not be identified directly.

He said that to speed up the process of identifying the bodies, his party needed DNA samples from the closest relatives of the victims, especially the victim's father and mother if they were still available. "We also need other information, such as the physical characteristics of the victim before he died in the fire to support the process of identifying the body", he said as quoted by Antara on Thursday, January 27.

In addition, he said, other close family members such as the victim's younger siblings and siblings, so that the process of identifying the bodies can be carried out quickly because of the DNA match.

If the victim's immediate family is not in the Sorong area, the DVI team will coordinate with the police where the victim's family is located to collect DNA samples.

He added that the identification process was quite long, so the patience of the victim's family is expected. "We will try our best to quickly identify the bodies of the 17 victims of the conflict in Sorong", he said.