<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>A mobile DNA laboratory was set up this week in Izyum, eastern Ukraine, to spare relatives of the war dead the pain of visually identifying bodies.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Around 50 people came to take part Friday in the DNA sampling organised on a parking lot in Izyum, AFP journalists said.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I am searching for my father Anatoly Matyshko. His neighbours say he was killed on March 10 by shrapnel and buried in his garden," Inna Kupriyanova told AFP.</div><div style="text-align: justify; ">"He was unearthed and taken to the Kharkiv morgue, but another body was found in the same garden."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"So I am coming to give my DNA, so that we can really identify my dad and give him a proper burial," the 46-year-old nurse explained.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">People genetically linked to a deceased or a missing person spent a few minutes providing saliva samples in a small white van.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The others were instructed to bring a personal item -- ideally, a toothbrush -- belonging to the missing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The "LAB'ADN" is a mobile structure deployed by the forensics department of the French Gendarmerie Nationale (IRCGN). AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>