Flight MU5735: DNA tests confirm identities of all China Eastern Airlines crash victims
- Communist Party leaders observe moment of silence in remembrance of the lives lost
- China will help overseas investigators with visas in the search for the cause of the disaster, ministry says
Liu Kaihui, from the Ministry of Public Security’s forensic evidence department, said the process was completed using DNA samples from relatives.
“With the help of fingerprint comparisons, we have confirmed the identities of all the victims,” Liu said in Wuzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, near the crash site.
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All 132 people on board China Eastern Air crash confirmed dead as second black box recovered
Carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members, the Boeing 737-800 disappeared en route to Guangzhou after taking off from Kunming in the southwest last Monday.
It lost more than 6,000 metres (20,000 feet) in altitude in just over a minute before crashing into a hillside in Teng county in Wuzhou.
Before a Politburo meeting on Monday, Xi and other Communist Party leaders observed a moment of silence for the dead, according to state news agency Xinhua.
