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Foreign Ministry Requests Police Forensics in Namibia

(IsraelNN.com) Israel Police have been asked to send a team of forensic specialists to the African nation of Namibia to identify first-hand the bodies of five Israelis who died in a plane crash there on Friday. Collection has already begun of DNA samples here in Israel in preparation for the trip.

It is believed that the five were high-level executives from a diamond company operating on the Ramat Gan Diamond Exchange, with mines in Namibia.  According to Haaretz, the police have been warned by the Foreign Ministry there is a possibility the Namibian government will not allow their entry. Visas have not yet been granted.


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