Most victims of South Africa fire unidentifiable

Many of the victims of fire at a block of flats in South Africa’s city of Johannesburg cannot be identified, a government pathologist has said.

“We realised this morning that out of the 74 bodies that we have collected, we only have 12 bodies that are identifiable, that can be viewed by visual means. Sixty two of these bodies have burnt beyond recognition,” Thembalethu Mpahlaza, a pathologist from Gauteng Forensic Pathology Services,told local media on Friday.

City officials have said that it could take a while to conduct fingerprint and DNA assessments to identify the bodies.
By BBC