Baghdad: The Forensic Medicine Department in Wasit called on Thursday the families of the charred victims of the Kut Hypermarket fire to conduct DNA tests to identify the bodies of the victims who died in the fire tragedy that broke out yesterday evening, Wednesday.

According to National Iraqi News Agency, this comes as the bodies of the victims of the hypermarket fire arrived this morning, Thursday, to the forensic medicine department at Al-Zahra Hospital in the city of Kut, amid a gathering of their families.