DNA collection a bust as families grieve over missing victims

AMRITSAR: Family members of nine of the 39 missing Indian workers from Iraq reached Amritsar's Government Medical College to give their DNA samples, only for the process to be put on hold due to the college forensic department's lack of requisite test kits. Sources said the DNA collection process had to be deferred as officials needed the kits in bulk. However, the delay has caused major inconvenience to the victims' families, several of whom had reached the city from far parts of the state. The samples were requested by the external affairs ministry on an urgent basis to restart efforts to trace the workers missing from Iraq’s Mosul since June, 2014.