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François Beauthier1, Wim Van de Voorde2, Philippe Lefevre2
1Medicolegal and Forensic Anthropology Unit, Laboratory of Anatomy, Biomechanics and Organogenesis, Faculty of Medicine, Université libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Abstract:
The Belgian disaster victim identification (DVI) team is involved in many investigations in our country. Indeed, this specialized team of the federal police oversees searching for and investigating criminally buried dead bodies, identification of unknown putrefied corpses, and more. The Belgian DVI team also assists with the identification of victims of mass disasters (natural, accidental, and mass murders). In this article, we consider the contributions of different teams (forensic pathology, anthropology, and odontology, federal police, and crime scene investigation) both on the scene of the attack at the Brussels National Airport (Zaventem) and in the laboratory work (autopsies, sample studies).
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