All the victims of the Jeju Air plane disaster have been identified, but not many bereaved families have taken over the bodies.
The DNA analysis process was overloaded, delaying the work, and it takes time to deliver the relatively intact body to the bereaved family.
Reporter Kim Jong-ho reports.
[Reporter]
All 179 victims have been identified.
It's been four days since the Jeju Air flight disaster.
However, there are not many bodies of victims who have been returned to the bereaved families.
The bereaved families strongly protested the slow confirmation process and communication issues.
[Victim's bereaved family] I'm waiting. It's not one but three. Three people. Someone doesn't even come out and explain.]
Investigators have apologized to the bereaved, saying DNA verification work is overloaded.
[Na Won-oh / Jeju Air Flight Disaster Investigation Headquarters: The National Forensic Service and our on-site personnel are overloaded. So it was delayed in the process of checking each other, so it was interrupted for a few hours yesterday....]
Authorities are conducting DNA analysis not only of the body but also of the scattered parts.
It is explained that the work takes longer as it tries to deliver the most intact body to the bereaved family in a realistic way.
[Na Won-oh / Director of Jeju Air Flight Disaster Investigation Division: DNA on the victim's body is coming out one after another. The carvings are getting a little late.]
Additional search operations will follow at the scene of the accident.
Here, too, there have been and there is a possibility that the body pieces will come out in the future, so the analysis may take longer.
If DNA analysis is complete, the body will be handed over to the bereaved family after confirmation of the bereaved family and autopsy of the National Forensic Service."
I'm Kim Jong Ho of YTN.
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