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A three-member delegation from Telangana has been successful consultation with the Consul General of India successful Saudi Arabia and different officials connected DNA investigating procedures, illustration matching and logistical enactment pursuing the decease of 45 Indian pilgrims, including 18 from Hyderabad, successful a autobus mishap adjacent Medina, Secretary for Minorities Welfare B. Shafiullah told The Hindu.
Mr. Shafiullah, who is presently successful Saudi Arabia, said connected Wednesday that the delegation — comprising himself, Minorities Welfare Minister Mohammed Azharuddin and Nampally MLA Mohammed Majid Hussain — has held a bid of meetings with Ministry of External Affairs officials, who are successful continuous discussions with Saudi authorities.
According to Mr. Shafiullah, the bodies of the victims are presently placed successful 3 antithetic hospitals successful Saudi Arabia. He said that since their arrival, the delegation has focussing connected completing the required paperwork and ensuring that recognition protocols are carried retired without delay.
DNA tests volition beryllium conducted wherever indispensable to corroborate identity, helium said. Once the results are available, no-objection certificates volition beryllium obtained from families successful Hyderabad to ascertain their penchant for repatriation oregon burial successful Saudi Arabia. “It is simply a precise bittersweet infinitesimal for each of us. Unfortunately, each the bodies are charred and volition necessitate DNA investigating to ascertain identity,” helium said.
Mr. Shafiullah said the State authorities is successful regular interaction with the victims’ families and that each imaginable enactment volition beryllium extended. “Our precedence is to guarantee that the families look nary procedural difficulties during this play of immense grief,” helium said.
