51. He dug amid the debris, finding check books and two purses he hoped would help identify the dead. 52. He identified the dead as Edgar Herrera, Melesio Lozaya and Salvador Orozco. 53. He spoke as he waited outside an official Indian mission in Mina set up to help with identifying the dead. 54. He said the dead were tentatively identified as members of a family named Guevara, but had no details. 55. Hundreds of police surrounded the campus after nightfall as weeping relatives identified the dead at the morgue at Sumber Waras Hospital. 56. Identifying the dead was a wrackingly slow process, forcing relatives and friends exhausted with dread to wait for hours at hospitals. 57. Identifying the dead was a wrackingly slow process, forcing relatives and friends already exhausted with dread to wait for hours at hospitals. 58. In a separate hanger, away from a cluster of reporters, the group prepared to identify the dead one by one. 59. Initial reports had identified the dead as Hungarian tourists. 60. It was an awful, time-consuming wait as officers searched the sprawling brick church for explosives -- and for coroners to identify the dead. |