RIO - The number of identified victims of the Air France flight 447 suffered this new amendment Tuesday.
Representatives of the Federal Police, Office of Legal Medicine (IML) and Secretariat of Social Defense (SDS), which joined the Task Force responsible for the identification of victims of air disaster, said that an examination of DNA showed that a fragment a of body that was found at sea belonged to a body that had been collected. With this identification, the number of found victims reduced from 51 to 50.
Of these, 43 have been identified. Seven bodies in the IML still await identification, among them, the body which the fragment belonged.
According to the head of Forensic Science, Francisco Sarmento, all the bodies had multiple fractures and injuries, probably caused by the impact, which was the cause of death.
- The victims had multiple fractures, injuries and ruptures of internal organs, evidenced by impact.
- The information I can give is that the the death was caused by impact, which is characterized by the presence of polytraumatic injuries, he said.