Bengaluru, Sept. 5 -- A nodal centre has been opened at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital in Bengaluru to collect DNA samples of relatives of people affected by the Nepal floods, which will help in identifying unidentified bodies.

Director and Dean of Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital, Dr Sriniwaslu Naidu, said the centre has been set up following directions from the government to collect blood samples of first-degree relatives of those affected in the Nepal floods.

"We have directions from the government to open a nodal centre for collecting the blood samples of first-degree relatives of people affected in Nepal. We'll be collecting samples for DNA and sending them to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL). This will help us to identify t...