Australia, Missing persons cases one step closer with new dedicated forensics laboratory

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Police may be one step closer to solving missing persons cases thanks to a new forensic DNA lab

There are 2,600 long-term missing persons in Australia, but their families may now be one step closer to receiving closure.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have begun testing hundreds of unidentified human remains in a new dedicated forensics laboratory based in Canberra.

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