Couple, their child killed in plane crash laid to rest in Karachi.

KARACHI -- Waqas and his wife Nida along with their child Aliyan, among 21 of the PK 8303 crash victims fortunate enough to have their bodies identified, were laid to rest by their relatives at a local graveyard here Saturday.

The identified bodies including that of Captain Sajjad Gul ( the chief pilot) and passengers Mohammad Tahir (Model Colony), Dilshad Begum (Kharadar), Iqra Shahid (Gulshan e Iqbal), Balaj (Gulshan e Hadeed), Farhan (Ghotki), Saleem Qadir (Bahadurabad) and 11 others are those that have been either handed over to their next of kin or in process of so after necessary DNA matching.

"Process of identification of bodies and handing over to the concerned families is fast underway," said PIA spokesperson Abdullah Hafeez mentioning that district managers of the airline are to visit the homes of...

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