Group Wants Release Of Air Crash Victims’ Corpses

A Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), on Thursday, called on the management of Dana Airline to stop inflicting emotional and psychological pain on families of victims of the plane crash.

In a statement in Benin, signed by Cesnabmihilo Dorothy, Aken’Ova-Ogidi and Joseph Akoro, the group, said it was an inhuman treatment to prevent family members who had identified the corpses of their loved ones to be denied access to them.

“We frown seriously at the inhuman treatment to some family members of victims who had been denied access to the remains of their loved ones.

“Mr Francis Wasa till date, have not been allowed to take a glimpse at his wife and only child who were on the ill-fated Dana flight, despite the fact that they were among the passengers whose corpses were intact and tagged.’’

The group alleged that the hospital authority had denied Wasa access to the corpses even after they were duly identified by the sisters of the deceased through her cloth and her hairdo.

“The corpse of the daughter is still having one of her shoes on, with no one contesting the corpses tagged No. 34 and 41 respectively.’’

The coalition called on the authority to, as a matter of urgency, allow Wasa and other families that are being tortured, to set eyes on the remains of their love ones.

The  Tide reports that the ill-fated Dana airplane crash landed on June 3, at Iju Ishaga area in Lagos, killing all the 153 passengers on board.