97 passengers including three children, 26 women and 68 men confirmed to be dead.

KARACHI -- Authorities here on Saturday have confirmed that Muhammad Zubair and Zafar Masood are the only survivors of the ill fated aircraft (Air Bus 320) that crashed Friday in Karachi while 97 other passengers including 26 women, 68 men and three children are among the dead.

Sharing details of the bodies carried to different hospitals for needed procedures, it was mentioned that 66 bodies (20 female, 43 male and three children) were moved to Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center (JPMC), of those 16 could be identified and 50 remain unidentified.

Thirty one bodies were carried to Dr. Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital - Karachi included six of women and 25 men. Twenty eight of them remain unidentified and three identified as that of Major Sheriyar, Lt. Balaj and Syed Danish Shah s/o Syed Ahad Shah. Former two were shifted to CMH-Malir.

The DNA process was said to be initiated without any unnecessary delay and on completion of the sample collection 11 bodies were moved to Edhi mortuary, 18 to Chippa and two to CMH-Malir.

As for JPMC, 16 identified bodies were said...

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