and one month after DNA tests were carried out - the family of a customs official who went missing during the Jeddah floods have finally identified a body that had lain at a morgue since the early days of the disaster as that of Customs Exemption Manager Khidhr Thuweibit Al-Salami. Khidhr Al-Salami's corpse had been placed at King Abdul Aziz Hospital Morgue only three days after the floods hit and relatives, unable to identify him due to condition of the body, set about searching all possible sites where he might be found, a search which ended on Wednesday, a month a and a half later. “We spent all that time searching in the Al-Sawaa'ed district and at hospitals and the DNA test results have only come out now,” said a brother of the deceased. The head of the Criminal Evidence department at Jeddah Police, the body responsible for the DNA analyses, denied tardiness in procedures. “It is incorrect to accuse us of any delay,” said Saleh Al-Ghamdi. “We have ten officers working on results analysis around the clock, and the operation itself only takes a few days. We will provide clarifications on Al-Salami's case once it has been reviewed in full.”
