Pressure mounts on Belgian authorities over victims’ identification

Pressure is growing on Belgian authorities to speed up the identification of scores of people injured, missing or killed in Tuesday’s terror attacks in Brussels.

Police say the devastation and force of the explosion added to the fact that the victims come from a wide range of countries have combined to further complicate the identification task.

So far at least eight different nationalities have been identified as among the 31 fatalities.

A Facebook page has been set up along with other sites, like Trello to try and identify the casualties. Certain messages make desperate appeals for information.

On Friday, a 51-year-old Briton, David Dixon, was confirmed to have died in the metro bombing. The absence of any passenger information list for the metro service has also hindered the identification process.

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Pressure is growing on Belgian authorities to speed up the identification of scores of people injured, missing or killed in Tuesday’s terror attacks in Brussels.

Free movement within the EU not to mention other worldwide travelers and people are criticising the identification process.

It was bomb blasts not a car crash. Some of those victims will potentially never be identified.

...does this make any sense...

Pressure is growing on Belgian authorities to speed up the identification of scores of people injured, missing or killed in Tuesday’s terror attacks in Brussels.

Free movement within the EU not to mention other worldwide travelers and people are criticising the identification process.

It was bomb blasts not a car crash. Some of those victims will potentially never be identified.

It was an airport. The majority of people would have had passports or ID's. Most would have probably had a reservation and this would be a part of the computer record. There are a lot CCTV cameras around the airport as well.

The DNA is the definitive match once they have narrowed down the list of potential victims.

So there is a video evidence,

There are ID's or passports

There is DNA

Edited March 26, 201610 yr by Credo

Pressure is growing on Belgian authorities to speed up the identification of scores of people injured, missing or killed in Tuesday’s terror attacks in Brussels.

Free movement within the EU not to mention other worldwide travelers and people are criticising the identification process.

It was bomb blasts not a car crash. Some of those victims will potentially never be identified.

It was an airport. The majority of people would have had passports or ID's. Most would have probably had a reservation and this would be a part of the computer record. There are a lot CCTV cameras around the airport as well.

The DNA is the definitive match once they have narrowed down the list of potential victims.

So there is a video evidence,

There are ID's or passports

There is DNA

I am not disputing what you are saying.

But there were 2 bomb sites. The metro site have the larger number of fatalities. where not everyone would need to carry ID's or passports. Not all visitors to an airport are there to fly out, some are there to meet people flying in.

DNA is only of use when you have something to match it with.

All I'm saying is that there is a host of reasons why all the victims have not been identified and the last thing that should be happening is the Belgian Authorities being hounded and making mistakes due to unnecessary haste.