Management of the dead and missing people in the Easter bombings in Colombo, Sri Lanka / Jayanie Weeratna and Ajith Tennakoon

• Main Authors: Weeratna, Jayanie, Tennakoon, Ajith
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Medicine 2021
• Subjects: Offenses against public safety. Internal security; Forensic Medicine. Medical jurisprudence. Legal medicine
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/70063/1/70063.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/70063/; https://doi.org/10.24191/jchs.v6i1(Special).13163
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

Identification of the victims is considered as one of the most important initial steps in the management of a mass disaster. Comparison of ante-mortem and post-mortem fingerprints (ridgeology), dental data and DNA profiles have been recognized as primary identification methods for Disaster Victim I...