Ethiopia: Instead of human remains, they delivered sacks of land to the families of the victims to bury them

While researchers

Paris

started badyzing the badpit record of the
The Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed on Sunday, relatives of the victims received earth sacks to bury
instead of the remains of their loved ones.

In Ethiopia, the authorities began distributing bags of dirt to the parents of the 157 victims of the accident, on behalf of the remains of their relatives, as the identification process will last at least six months.

Relatives were given a bag containing a kilogram of scorched earth from the scene of the accident, said two relatives. An Ethiopian government official confirmed this information. All insisted on speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to discuss the matter with the press.

"We have land because it was impossible to identify the remains and deliver them to parents," said one of the relatives published by the AP agency. "No
We will rest until they give us the corpses or remains of our loved ones. "

On the eve, DNA forensics had begun to identify the remains, a process that could take up to six months, as many bodies were reduced to small pieces.

The report to the parents

"The results of the DNA badysis will be announced about five or six months after the samples are taken," the airline said in a document sent to relatives of the victims. This document was transferred to AFP by a family member of one of them, who asked to remain anonymous.

The Ethiopian Minister of Transport, Dagmawit Moges, said at a press conference in Addis Ababa that the investigation into the causes of the accident "requires a thorough badysis and considerable time for it. draw concrete conclusions, "he added.

The identification of the victims will be carried out by collecting DNA from the remains collected at the site of the tragedy, about 60 km east of Addis Ababa, with the samples of the victims. DNA presented by families.

According to this document, these relatives can deliver DNA samples to Addis Ababa or in any Ethiopian Airlines office.

In addition, personal belongings recovered at the scene of the accident will be returned to families in "about two months" and death certificates in two weeks, the text said.

The person who shared the document with the AFP agency said that his deceased relative was Jewish and that his funeral could not take place without human remains. The six-month delay is difficult for the family to accept, according to this source.

Tomorrow, a funeral service is scheduled in Addis Ababa, one week after the accident. Muslim families have started praying for the dead and are eager to bury something as soon as possible.

In France, they started to badyze black boxes

BEA, the French agency investigating air accidents, tweeted today that the technical work on the recording had begun. The unit also reported that she had resumed her flight data recording work.

The recordings, also called black boxes, were sent to France because BEA has extensive experience in the badysis of these devices. Experts from the US National Transportation Safety Board and aircraft manufacturer Boeing are also involved in the investigation.

Sunday's accident, which killed 157 people of 35 different nationalities, is the second in less than five months of a Boeing 737 Max 8, banned in many countries, including the United States, where it is made.

In similar circumstances, a plane of the same model as the Indonesian airline Lion Air fell into the sea in October off the Indonesian coast, killing 189 people. The preliminary investigation report on the causes of the accident was published about a month after the accident.

With information from AFP and AP agencies.