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REPORT: Authorities continue deploying efforts to identify victims of Indonesian boat incident

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30-09-2013 | 13:03

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REPORT: Authorities continue deploying efforts to identify victims of Indonesian boat incident

The Chargé d'affaires at the Lebanese embassy in Indonesia, Joanna Azzi accompanied the Lebanese delegation in Indonesia to the morgue where the corpses of the victims of the Indonesian boat are being kept.

Azzi told LBCI that she is keen on following up on this issue with the immigration committee in Indonesia in order to facilitate the return of the survivors to Lebanon.

However, reports said that the victims’ corpses were already decomposing making it difficult to identify them, adding that the Indonesian authorities requested the DNA records of the immigrants in order to match them with the bodies.

Dozens of Lebanese nationals hailing from the towns of Akkar were reported dead on Friday, September 26 after a boat carrying them to Australia sank off the coast of Indonesia.

Preliminary information showed that an Iraqi national known as Abou Salah was in charge of transferring the persons to Indonesia before reaching Australia.

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