A tsunami victim's body has been identified 10 years after he died in the Indian Ocean tsunami, Independent Online reported on Thursday.
A Nepalese man claimed the body of his father in Thailand's Phang Nga Province. He was just 9 years old when his father went missing during the natural disaster that killed more than 5,000 people in the country.
The man, now 19, provided DNA samples to authorities, who then found a match in the body.
"There are still 382 unidentified bodies at this cemetery," said Tanapol Songput, leader of the disaster team at the Mirror Foundation, an organization that deals with identifying and returning the bodies of disaster victims to their family members.
"In the last 10 years, 48 bodies have been exhumed and returned to their families," he said.
December 26 will mark exactly 10 years since the tsunami claimed about 230,000 lives in a dozen countries along the Indian Ocean, ENCA reported.
