Pakistan plane crash leaves grim task: Identifying victims from DNA

KARACHI, PAKISTAN - The bodies were pulled one by one from the ruins of damaged buildings and the smoldering wreckage of the Pakistan International Airlines plane that had crashed a day earlier into a crowded neighbourhood of Karachi: 97 of them by Saturday .

Nineteen bodies were identified and handed over to the relatives after DNA tests and identification, according to health officials. And post-mortems were being carried out on the rest of the passengers of the plane, an Airbus A320 belonging to the national airline. The nation's aviation industry has long had a troubled history of crashes. Most of the passengers, including top banking executives, a senior civil servant and military officials, had been returning to Karachi for Eid.

"He was working with the country's mega housing firm in Lahore and was coming to celebrate Eid with the family," Ali said. "Help him! Save the one who is alive!" one man could be heard shouting in the footage as several people, including a paramilitary official, picked up a victim dressed in a white T-shirt and blue denim, his eyes closed and seemingly unconscious, and moving him away from smoky wreckage of the plane.

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