By Froilan Gallardo
Special Correspondent
MOST of the more than 50 soldiers who died in the C-130 crash in Sulu, were burnt beyond recognition that only nine have been identified so far.
Major Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr., commander of the 4th Infantry Division, said military probers used dental records of the dead soldiers to determine their exact identities.
“Many of them were (burnt) beyond recognition that it was impossible to identify them without the dental records,” Brawner said.
Brawner said the 4th Infantry Division (4ID) staff had already sent to Zamboanga City the copies of the dental records of the soldiers who died in the crash.
4ID spokesperson Major Francisco Garello Jr said six remains that have already been identified, arrived aboard a Philippine Air Force Airbus C-295 medium transport in Lumbia Airport here Wednesday morning.
Garello said three more soldiers who were identified were trucked to their hometowns in Zamboanga del Sur and Misamis Occidental Wednesday.
He said these brought the number to nine soldiers identified through their dental records.
The 4ID recruited 86 of the soldiers who took the C-130 plane that crashed in Sulu last Sunday.
They were supposed to be deployed with the 11th Army Division to fight the Abu Sayyaf terrorists in Sulu.
Some of the families of the dead soldiers raised fears that the dead bodies inside the closed white coffins were maybe not their relatives.
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