The November floods have ripped open at least 24 recent graves at a Jeddah cemetery, a health official said Monday. The bodies, which have been identified through DNA testing, will be reburied at the cemetery, said Ghazi Tago, head of the morgue department at the Jeddah Health Affairs Management. In addition to the 24 bodies from the graveyard, the morgue at King Abdulaziz Hospital received 122 bodies; 99 of which were flood victims identified through DNA tests. A total of 23 others have not yet been identified. Identified bodies were given to their families after a thorough investigation of family connection through official documents, and by witnesses who identified the bodies and their families, he said. Some badly decomposed bodies have been identified through DNA tests of families members who reported them missing in the floods, Tago added.
