US defence team to search remains of missing World War II personnel in India
Web Report/Ahmedabad
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National Forensic Sciences University signed a MoU through video conferencing last week.
A team from the US Department of Defense (DOD) will be in India to trace, recover and identify the remains of some of the over 400 missing personnel, who were in India during World War II.
The National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) Gandhinagar in Gujarat signed a memorandum of understanding through video conferencing last week with the DOD regarding the joint team’s efforts to recover the remains of the missing personnel. Dr Gargi Jani, project manager, NFSU, told a newspaper that this would be the first time that the university would be collaborating with an agency to trace missing personnel of a war fought nearly 80 years ago.
Scientific experts at the NFSU will help the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA), a part of the Department of Defense (DoD) of the USA, to recover and identify these missing personnel to bring closure to their families.
National Forensic Sciences University was recently given the status of an Institution of National Importance and is the world s first and only university dedicated to Forensic and allied sciences.