Do not know how many are found: To work ID group to identify … – Dagbladet.no

BERGEN (Dagbladet): NCIS ‘national ID group is internationally recognized for his work on crime scenes and after tragic events.

Yesterday sent group 18 people in Bergen and Turøy to assist in the work after 13 people died in a helicopter accident.

The police is still early for work, and late yesterday were victims transported to Bergen Flesland from the crash site before they were driven in column Gade Institute, forensic department at Haukeland University Hospital.

While police and crews continue to make search for both victims and wreckage at the site, is now starting work to identify the deceased.

Do not know how many are missing

It is a comprehensive process for NCIS. Polititet is not yet certain how many deceased they found at the site, which is one of the most important issues to clarify. Chief of Staff Gustav Landro Western Police District told Dagbladet that they partly looking for all the body parts that are missing.

– It’s a demanding crash site to investigate. We’re both in the water, on land and in the wreckage. It is also a challenging work for those who are on site, says Landro Dagbladet.

Police have previously operated by the figure that 11 of 13 are found, but the chief of staff Landro says police will not operate with a number now, and that it is too early to know how many are found.

He said that all relatives in Norway is formally notified by the police. On the two foreign nationals, where one was Italian and one Briton, missing police official confirmation on alert, but has received indications that these have been notified.

DNA

To retrieve information from the 13 victims’ family and closest being an important part of the work ahead.

In addition to the Criminal Police collect DNA records from victims’ families, there are also many other tracks followed up.

– For such a task, we will initiate systematic. This means that we notice, documents and packages into what we find. In its efforts to identify, we see among other characteristics such as tattoos and scars. In addition to this consideration is tooth samples and X-rays, as well as DNA samples, leader in NCIS ‘national ID Group, Per Angel, told Dagbladet.

This is checked further against the register.

– We attempt to acquire so full profiles as possible. We use the familiar to uncover the unknown, he said.

– Yesterday mobilized we all professions in the ID group, ranging from dentists, pathologists and crime technicians and not least when ID administration. We have started a painstaking recovery work related to that found at the scene, the people and human remains. This is work we know amends from similar accidents, it is challenging in the sense that it is stroking the sights, but the crews are well trained and familiar with the work, says Angel.

Five days

he said that police hope to have identification ready within five days.

– Tells the number you have here today something about the difficulty of the investigation?

– It does not really. We have people on the scene, the forensic institute, tips central and working up with relatives, he said.

NCIS ‘national ID group has assisted in work on major disasters such as the tsunami in Thailand in 2004 and the terrorist attack in Algeria in 2013. Angel says that efforts are mostly the same, but the crash site on Turøy partially disordered.

– We are still in the early stages and is not finished, but is confident that this is going well.

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