ICRC, Azerbaijani Commission on POWs, Missing Persons collect 10,000 biological samples

Recently, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Azerbaijani State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons have collected approximately 10,000 biological samples from family members of missing persons across the country, Ilaha Huseynova, head of the Public Relations Department of the ICRC's Baku office, told Report in Khojavand.

According to Ilaha Huseynova, these biological samples are stored by the State Commission.

"DNA profiling has been started from those biological samples. These data will make it possible to quickly determine the identity of the human remains found during the exhumation," she said.