Cho Eun-hwa was the third victim identified since salvage workers raised the sunken ferry in March
DNA tests on bones found in ferry wreckage recently raised from the sea identified a South Korean high school student missing since the 2014 sinking that killed 304 people, officials said Thursday.
The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said the bones were confirmed as from Cho Eun-hwa, who was among the 249 students from the same school who died when the ferry Sewol sank on April 16,2014.
She was the third victim identified since salvage workers raised the sunken ferry in March. Earlier DNA and forensic tests confirmed the identities of another student and a teacher. The remains of two other students, another teacher, a woman, a man and his 6-year-old son have yet to be identified.
