Canada's national police force has begun collecting DNA samples from family members of the victims of the ill-fated Ukrainian International Airlines flight to help with the identification of the deceased, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said in a statement on Thursday
TORONTO (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 17th January, 2020) Canada's national police force has begun collecting DNA samples from family members of the victims of the ill-fated Ukrainian International Airlines flight to help with the identification of the deceased, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said in a statement on Thursday.
"The RCMP is currently creating DNA profiles here in Canada to assist Iran with Canadian victim identification," RCMP spokesperson Catherine Fortin said in a statement emailed to Sputnik.
The samples will be stored in the RCMP's National DNA Data Bank, where they will be processed into individual DNA profiles, the RCMP said.
�The RCMP will provide the DNA profiles to authorities in Iran to help identify the crash victims, should a request be submitted through Interpol, the statement added.
