Summary Samples are being collected to identify the remains of victims.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya news) - The process of collecting samples from the relatives of Chinese national Han Qiang to identify his body through DNA testing will take place today (Saturday).
However, samples to identify the remains of two foreigners including Harald Kessier and Herwig Eichelbenger, who were also travelling in the ill-fated PIA flight PK-661 from Chitral to Islamabad on Wednesday, are yet to be received.
Relatives of Kessier, an Australian national, and South Korea’s Eichelbenger, have not contacted the authorities yet.
On the other hand, the process to collect DNA samples of relatives of the Pakistani victims was completed on Friday.
AIR HOSTESS LAID TO REST
Funeral prayer for air hostess Sadaf Farooq was offered in Kallar Syedan. She was laid to rest in her native village Shah Bagh today.
People in large number attended the funeral prayers.
At least 47 people, including famed rock star-turned-preacher Junaid Jamshed, were onboard the PK661 when it smashed into the side of a mountain near the town of Havelian, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, on Wednesday, after taking off from the mountain resort region of Chitral.
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Among those who perished were two infants, three foreigners - two Austrians and a Chinese man - and five crew listed on the manifest.
Engine trouble was initially believed responsible, but many questions remain, stirring new worries about the safety record of money-losing state carrier Pakistani International Airlines.
A PIA spokesman said the pilot, who issued a "mayday" emergency call before the crash, may have prevented an even bigger catastrophe by manoeuvring the plane away from populated areas.
