Kuwait identifies 19 remains of POWs, missing persons

— Kuwait identified the remains of 19 Kuwaiti Prisoners of War (POWs) and missing persons upon DNA tests by the General Administration of Criminal Evidence, said head of the Committee of POWs and Missing Persons Affairs at the Foreign Ministry Ambassador Rabie Al-Adsani Thursday The remains belong to the following martyrs: 1- Bader Mubarak Al-Buraisi 2- Bader Met’eb Al-Mutairi 3- Hussein Al-Shimmari 4- Khaled Duaij Al-Khaledi 5- Sa’ad Mansour Al-Ajmi 6- Saud Nayef Al-Dhaihani 7- Saeed Awaadh Al-Rashidi 8- Salah Hussin Al-Enizi 9- Fares Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi 10- Fares Mohammad Al-Enizi 11- Fawaz Butaihan Al-Mutairi 12- Mohammad Humoud Al-Hula 13- Mohammad Abdulatif Al-Kharaz 14- Mekhled Jubairan Al-Dhaihani 15- Mousa Sattar Al-Enizi 16- Nayef Khalaf Al-Enizi 17- Nayef Awaad Al-Rashidi 18- Nayef Mehmel Al-Mutairi 19- Waleed Mekhled Al-Buraisi Al-Adsani said that the prisoners had been arrested during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and their remains were included in the previous batches received on November 2020 as well as January and March of 2021.

He also added that the foreign ministry informed the martyrs’ families of the status of their loved ones.

Al-Adsani thanked the Iraqi authorities, the members of the tripartite and technical subcommittee, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) for their efforts through the work of the subcommittee.

Source: Kuwait News Agency

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