Reuters -TACLOBAN - A handful of forensic experts raced against time
to identify bodies at a mass grave in Tacloban on Monday, after super
typhoon Tolanda (international name Haiyan) killed thousands in the
Philippines.
Over 100 recently found bodies lay in bags along the roadside beside a trench that already held over 700 bodies.
A group of three forensic pathologists from Manila's University of
the Philippines worked with three morticians to identify dozens of
bodies.
Ten days after the typhoon, forensic pathologists struggled to
identify bloated and rotting corpses, taking photographs and noting
remaining features, sizes and other details like clothes, jewelry and
mobile phones.
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