The Swedish embassy has been asked to provide DNA samples to identify a body believed to be of a Swedish national that was retrieved from a Himalayan glacier after 23 years.
Doctors have urged Indian police to provide genetic samples of the family members of the body that was found last week at a height of 19,000 ft in the Kangla Jot glacier.
This was preceded by the autopsy report Monday of the body possibly of Margot Lydia Aulikki Ryynanen, 29, a Swedish national whose travel documents were found with the corpse.
Ryynanen had gone missing along with her American boyfriend in the high Himalayas in the summer of 1981. Her mother had lodged a complaint with Stockholm in early 1982.
"The autopsy report conducted Monday rules out the possibility of foul play in the death of the Swedish trekker. With no injury marks on her body she probably died due to freezing in extreme cold on the glacier," said VK Mishra, head of the forensic department at the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMC) Shimla.
Doctors also matched the dental card provided by the Swedish embassy with the body that is some 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing around 30 kg, with the skin and flesh frozen and shoulder length blonde hair intact.
{{/usCountry}}Doctors also matched the dental card provided by the Swedish embassy with the body that is some 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing around 30 kg, with the skin and flesh frozen and shoulder length blonde hair intact.
{{/usCountry}}"Besides the dental card, even the facial features match the photographs of Ryynanen," said Mishra.
"We have also sent the dental card and autopsy report to the Swedish embassy and requested for DNA samples of close relatives of the deceased for exact identification of the body," confirmed BS Thind state crime and security chief.
Doctors say the body has been embalmed and will remain in the IGMC mortuary for further forensic tests.