DVI Bags DNA Samples Of 2 WNA Victims Of The Tangerang Prison Fire Tragedy

Meet the police press about the progress of handling the case of the Tangerang/ANTARA prison burning

JAKARTA - The National Police's Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team pocketed dozens of DNA samples from victims of deadly fires at the Class I prison in Tangerang. Two of them are foreign nationals (foreigners) from South Africa and Portugal.

"For ante mortem DVI already has the data taken from Tangerang prison data. So there is already antemortem data for the 2 foreign nationals," said Karo Penmas of the Public Relations Division of the National Police Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono to reporters, Thursday, September 9.

Meanwhile, for other problems, such as repatriation of corpses and so on, they will coordinate with the relevant agencies.

"For other problems, the management, this will involve the agencies in it. Now there are no problems with the ante-mortem-related process," said Rusdi.

Previously, the Minister of Law and Human Rights (Menkum HAM) Yasonna Laoly said dozens of inmates were killed in the Tangerang prison fire incident. Some of them are convicts of murder to terrorism cases.

Then, there are also two prisoners who are foreign nationals (foreigners) from South Africa and Portugal. However, there is no detail about the case that ensnared them.

"We have cooperated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the embassy, consular of the country concerned. Later, they will be linked to their families," said Yasonna.

Meanwhile, the Tangerang Class I Prison caught fire on Wednesday, September 8, in the early hours of the morning. As a result, 44 inmates died due to the incident.