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Keratan Akhbar Pilihan Recovery Mission Chief Recalls Retrieving A Shoe With Foot Bones In It
“We employed archaeological methods (for recovery), which meant we had to dig the soil inch by inch, recovering more than 2,000 human fragments and bones," he...
Kuala Lumpur, 20th July 2023 - The hand buried under the soil seemed to be reaching out to Selangor Police Chief, CP Dato’ Hussein Omar Khan, desperately calling out for help.
This and other horrors were discovered by the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) commander in the process of retrieving the remains of MH17 victims.
He said he also found a shoe with foot bones in it and the most important evidence debris from the cockpit studded with thousands of pieces of shrapnel.
Dato' Hussein said the team employed techniques used by archaeologists to recover the remains as the recovery was in stages and ended only nine months after the plane crashed on July 17, 2014.
“We employed archaeological methods (for recovery), which meant we had to dig the soil inch by inch, recovering more than 2,000 human fragments and bones," he said.
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