Ukrainians are taking DNA tests to identify dead bodies in Bucha

Ukrainians are taking DNA tests to identify dead bodies in Bucha

After weeks of exhumations, a morgue in Bucha holds more than 200 bodies that have not been identified. Some were buried without documents and are waiting to be claimed, but many are too disfigured by their deaths, or their treatment after death, to be identified by sight, Qazet.az reports according to theguardian.
Ukrainians who saw their loved ones killed or have collected their bodies for burial are grappling with terrible grief. But thousands more are dealing with a loss compounded by the agony of uncertainty.

Some are searching for children or parents, a spouse or siblings who went missing when the Russians were slaughtering civilians. Others got bad news from a friend or an image online, but have not been able to find the remains of the person they loved.

So everyone lining up outside the tent in Bucha has come with the bleakest of hopes to continue in limbo, confirm a death, or find a body they will be able to bury but not recognise.