Dana plane crash: Families bury human parts

Some families have been burying just body parts of the victims because of the fatality of the plane crash that made some victims lose several parts of their bodies in the accident.
That explains why most of the victims’ corpses are not laid in state before burial because what is inside the coffin is just dismembered body, a human leg, head, hand or other parts of the body.
However, Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Prof. David Wale Oke, said that it is
far better than mass burial and it is what is practised in advanced countries when such fatal accidents happen.
He told Saturday Sun exclusively that the handling of the victims of Dana plane crash would be compiled into a report and presented in an international forum to show Nigeria’s advancement in managing such crises like plane crash.
He also said that in a meeting between Lagos State Government and the victims’ families, it was agreed that the victims be buried separately as against mass burial, which is outdated in modern societies.
He recalled a mass burial of victims of a plane crash done at Ejigbo, a suburb of Lagos State, where some relations of the crash victims could not visit easily because of distance.

Culled- SaturdaySun

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