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Update news dna identification
Ho Chi Minh City has completed the exhumation of 9,842 graves of unidentified war martyrs, collecting 7,083 sets of remains samples for DNA testing, while 2,759 cases yielded no samples.
A military flight transported 8,453 biological samples from fallen soldiers’ remains from Can Tho to Hanoi for DNA testing on October 21, following a tribute ceremony at Can Tho International Airport.
Efforts are being stepped up to expand DNA testing capacity and apply next-generation sequencing technology to improve the identification of more than 207,000 fallen soldiers' remains whose DNA samples have been collected.
More than 15,400 biological samples from unidentified fallen soldiers were flown from southern Vietnam to Hanoi on Oct. 5 for DNA analysis, in the largest such airlift to date.