CPLC sets up identification desk at Edhi morgue

Karachi
The Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) in collaboration with the Edhi Foundation has initiated a project for the biometric identification of bodies arriving at the city’s only public morgue every day.
According to a statement issued by CPLC, the Edhi morgue receives an average of 10 bodies in a single day and sometimes.
It also carries out the burials of around six unidentified bodies every day at its graveyard in Mawach Goth.
The statement said it was impossible for the Edhi officials to identify and locate the families of unidentified bodies.
However, under the project launched with CPLC, the databank of National Database and Registration Authority will be used to biometrically ascertain the identities of unknown deceased.
For this purpose, a special desk has been set up at the morgue by the CPLC.
So far under the project, several bodies have been identified and their families successfully located.