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Humanitarian forensic scientists trace the missing, identify the dead and comfort the living

  • Written by Ahmad Samarji, Associate Professor of Forensic Science Education & STEM Education and the Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Phoenicia University
Humanitarian forensic scientists trace the missing, identify the dead and comfort the livingRed Cross forensic specialist Stephen Fonseca, right, searches for bodies in a field of ruined maize in Magaru, Mozambique, after Cyclone Idai, April 4, 2019. AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi

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