South Africa: Update On Efforts to Repatriate Mortal Remains of SA Citizens From Nigeria

press release

The Inter-Ministerial Task Team is pleased to announce that we have reached another critical milestone on the path towards the repatriation of South African citizens who lost their lives in Nigeria. Nigerian authorities have completed the post-mortems on all 116 deceased in the Nigerian building collapse disaster.

While we are not sure about how much longer it will take to bring deceased South Africans home, we are encouraged with the completion of post-mortems which bring us closer to finalising the process. The Nigerian authorities have also finalised the collection of DNA samples and are currently finalising the administrative processes to transport the exhibits to a forensic laboratory for comparison purposes. The fingerprint verification process is still underway.

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