PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Oregon authorities said on Tuesday they have managed to positively identify one of nine people killed Sunday morning after a charter bus skidded off an icy mountain highway and crashed down an embankment.
Identification of the victims has been complicated because some were foreign nationals, said Eugene Gray, forensic administrator for the Oregon State Medical Examiner's Office.
The Korean Consulate in Seattle, Wash. sent a team to work with investigators, since many of the 47 people on the bus were of Korean origin and citizens of Korea.
Some other passengers were Canadian and others were from the United States.
"We do positive identifications with fingerprints, dental records and DNA," Gray told Reuters. "None of this is available to us. We don't know how long it will take. We have to wait until we're provided the information."
One of 9 deceased victims of Oregon bus crash identified so far - Read Full Story at US- Reuters
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