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Identifying Blast Victims

With the rise of mass destruction and catastrophe in this era, identification of bodies has become an extremely difficult task for the investigation teams. The Forensic science experts and anthropologists are devising newer methods of identification. In cases where there are mutilated or skeletonized bodies in which soft tissue is lost, the techniques of finger printing and DNA analysis cannot be applied. Radiography of the frontal sinuses are being used to identify ethnic groups as these are present within strong bones remaining in their original shape and size even after blast injuries, putrefaction or decomposition. Every individual and ethnic group has frontal sinus variation in the size and shape. The aim is to differentiate between ethnic groups of Pakistan which will help later to identify the ethnic background of bodies who have suffered blast injuries and cannot be identified as most of their body parts have been destroyed.