KARACHI, Oct 20: Although the bodies of 66 victims of Thursday’s twin blasts have been handed over to their families after identification, some 42 bodies are still lying in the Edhi morgue, Sohrab Goth, for want of identification.

More than 130 people were killed in the two blasts that occurred near the Karsaz Bridge in a Pakistan People’s Party convoy organised to welcome its chairperson Benazir Bhutto on her homecoming.

A spokesman for the Edhi Foundation, Anwar Kazmi, told Dawn that some 110 bodies were sent to the Edhi morgue from different hospitals during the last two days. “We have handed over 66 bodies to their relatives after proper identification process.”

He said a number of people had been coming to the Edhi Centre and the morgue in search of their relatives. However, still there were some 42 bodies which had not been identified till Saturday night. “Fifteen of them are badly mutilated and their identification is too difficult. Their relatives may identify them only by their clothes or some other possible marks on their body parts,” he added.

A poster, prepared by the Edhi Foundation, containing photographs of those killed in Thursday’s incident was affixed outside city’s major hospitals, Bilawal House and the Edhi morgue making the identification easy. The photographs may also be seen at Edhi’s website.

The Karachi city government has set up a help centre at the Sohrab Goth Edhi Centre for providing financial help to the families of the victims, who had come here from other parts of the country, for shifting of the bodies and their burial.

According to a press release, the city government has so far provided Rs10,000 each to the families of 24 dead belonging to the interior of Sindh and Punjab.