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Without refrigerator vans needed for disaster victim identification (DVI) operations in areas badly hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), the next best option for unprocessed bodies in an advanced state of decomposition is a temporary burial. Dr Wildredo Tierra, officer-in-charge of the National Bureau of Investigation’s Medico-Legal Division, said the decomposing bodies will be buried in shallow graves and exhumed later on for processing. An average of only 40 bodies, compared to the normal 150 a day, are processed by a team that consists of forensic doctors, photographers and chemists from the NBI forensic chemistry division. Less than ideal conditions in the work site are hampering DVI operations.
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