How some medicolegal aspects of the Zeebrugge Ferry disaster apply to the investigation of mass disasters.
The capsizing of a British Channel ferry as it left Zeebrugge, Belgium's harbor, on the 6th of March, 1987, resulted in an all-out effort by Belgian and British authorities to identify the victims as well as to determine the medicolegal ramifications. This report describes the investigation and the lessons learned from it.
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Laboratory of Legal Medicine, University of Ghent, Belgium.
D000059:Accidents; D001344:Autopsy; D001530:Belgium; D004190:Disasters; D005553:Forensic Dentistry / Q000379:methods*; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016495:Police