2023-08-26 05:30:42
With the publication of this official list Thursday evening, the authorities hope to advance research to determine the true extent of the drama. “We need your help,” Maui Police Chief John Pelletier recalled in a video message, asking the public to contact the FBI if a name on the list matches someone safe and sound.
From 1100 to 388, but how?
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Since the disaster, local authorities have asked the FBI to intervene to standardize the data of numerous lists circulating on social networks or in accommodation centers, which listed thousands of missing persons. Many survivors have thus been identified and located.
Only 46 bodies identified
The authorities expect, however, that the human toll of the disaster, already very heavy, will worsen. Searching some charred buildings is proving extremely difficult and will likely take weeks more.
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The identification of the victims, whose corpses are often unrecognizable and require comparison with family DNA, is also laborious: only 46 bodies – for the vast majority of adults of a certain age, but also a 7-year-old child – have been identified so far.
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The publication of the official list of missing on social media has prompted several comments from people claiming that some names match those of safe and sound people. This method had already been used by the American authorities after the Camp Fire, a large fire which killed 85 people in 2018 in California and after which 1,300 people were initially missing.
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