Authors
Gunjan Jindal
Abstract
In forensic anthropology, it is the most important to identify the victims who died in the mass disaster incident in which forensic anthropologists play a significant role for human’s personal identification. In this incidents, persons were dead by human made disaster includes bomb blast, through which, body parts of person were fragmented into small pieces which are not recognizable. After occur this incident, victims were identified by developing the expert’s services in many disciplines which consist of anthropologist, radiologist, fingerprint, pathologists, DNA experts, etc. The disaster victim identification (DVI) process are used in many countries for the identification of mass disaster which consists four phases such as antemortem, postmortem, scene and reconciliation. The process of DVI is not a new discovery in which identification was conducted and beyond the identification, documenting and recording are also conducted. In this paper, we will discuss about the role of forensic anthropologist at the disaster scene and how to identify the victim. Keywords: Disaster Victim Identification, Bomb Blast, Forensic Anthropologist
Introduction
The meaning of disaster is “the serious distraction of the human community by using economic and environmental material”. It may be natural or human-made due to which multiple fatalities was come out. The important mark is to identify the victim in occurred incident, not only for identify decease but for his/her surviving family and friends (Boer, Blau, Delabarde, et.al, 1). In forensic anthropology, the skeleton and dental’s scientific methods are used to reconstruct events for the identification of human remains which are partially decomposed, skeletonized, burnt, fragmented etc. The three biological traits such as fingerprints, DNA, bones and teeth, are used for positive identification of human remains. Many human life are taken within minutes in mass disaster such as train crash, earthquakes, bomb blast, tsunami, airplane crush and volcanic eruption etc (Indriati, 149).
In Disaster Victim Identification (DVI), forensic anthropologists play a significant role in which they are analyze and recovery of human remains including, skeletonized, decomposed, burned or fragmentary (https://www.interpol.int). Forensic anthropologists are apply their knowledge in their work and understand the variation of the forms of skeletal remains. The main focus of forensic anthropologists is applied on crime scene, to develop biological profile and compile applicable documentation. On the basis of their knowledge, the death outcomes are provided by agencies of law enforcement with their answers and conclusions (Stanojevich, 1).
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