The arrival of each dead body at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has multiplied the agony of the already aggrieved relatives of the ill-fated Boeing 737 passengers, as the bodies blew into pieces after the crash thus making it difficult for the relatives to identify their loved ones. The remains of the 127 victims were shifted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Friday night, where 118 were identified while 110 bodies were handed over to their relatives. Those 118 identified mutilated bodies were either handed over to the relatives of diseased while few of them were sent to cold storage located in I-10 Sector through a number of ambulances. “The identified bodies will later be handed over to relatives as soon as they reach here,” said Dr Altaf Hussain, Joint Executive Director (JED), PIMS hospital. As soon as the coffin came out of the PIMS emergency ward’s gate, the anguished relatives rushed towards the coffin with the hope that the dead body was complete and identifiable as the coffins were tagged with the names of passengers with their identification number. “The administration of PIMS has handed over the dead bodies to the relatives who have reached here while the rest of the bodies will be handed over to them as soon as they will reach here,” JED said, adding those nine dead bodies whose identification could not be made yet will done through DNA test.
