Dental records and DNA needed to identify victims

THE bodies of some victims of the tsunamis that smashed into southern Thailand will never be found, while many others that are recovered could take months to identify, officials warned yesterday.

Half of those killed in Thailand are foreigners - many holidaymakers from Europe.

But nine days after the St Stephen’s Day tragedy, many of the corpses are so bloated that they can’t be identified visually, so dental records and DNA tests must be used.