Bundeskriminalamt (BKA)

Missions of the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Team

IncidentDatePlaceNumber of Victims
1Air crash03.12.1972Tenerife/Spain155
2Air crash20.11.1974Nairobi/Kenya59
3Air crash10.09.1976Zagreb/Yugoslavia113
4Air crash19.09.1976Isparta/Turkey155
5Gas explosion11.07.1978Camp site "Los Alfaques" Tortosa/Spain105
6Helicopter crash11.09.1982Mannheim/Germany46
7Apartment building fire24.05.1986Bad Nauheim/Germany8
8Air crash15.10.1987Como/Italy37
9Air crash02.01.1988Izmir/Turkey16
10Air crash08.02.1988Mülheim/Essen/Germany21
11Air crash28.08.1988Ramstein/Germany70
12Air crash26.05.1991Saphanburi/Thailand223
13Bus accident26.09.1992Agard/Hungary16
14Air crash05.03.1993Skopje/Macedonia97
15Air crash03.01.1994Irkutsk/CIS224
16Air crash06.02.96Puerto Plata/Dominican Republic189
17Attack on tourist bus18.09.1997Cairo/Egypt9
18Train accident03.06.1998Eschede/Germany101
19Air crash (Concorde)25.07.2000Paris/France113
20terrorist attack11.09.2001New York2993
21Aircraft collision01.07.2002Überlingen/Lake Constance71
22Air crash22.08.2002Nepal18
23terrorist attack12.10.2002Bali201
24Bus accident08.05.2003Siófok/Hungary33
25Bus accident17.05.2003Lyon/France28
26Bus accident20.12.2003Hensies/Belgium11
27Flood disaster26.12.2004Southeast Asia552 German victims
28Air crash16.09.2007Phuket/Thailand90
29*Air crash20.08.2008Madrid/Spain154
30Air crash08.10.2008Lukla/Nepal18
31*Bus accident04.11.2008Hannover/Germany20
32Attacks26.11.2008Mumbai/India179
33*Air crash01.06.2009Brasilia228
34Homicide of german citizen13.06.2009Saada/Yemen3
35*Earthquake12.01.2010Port-au-Prince/Haiti4
36Discovery of dead bodies14.03.2010Sanaa/Yemen6
37*Train crash29.01.2011Hordorf10
38*Average "Costa Concordia"13.01.2012Giglio/Italy32
39*Terrorist attack "Westgate Center"21.09.2013Nairobi/Kenia62+
40*Taifun08.11.2013Philippines5240
41Air crash17.07.2014Schachtarsk/Ukraine298
42Air crash24.07.2014Gao/Mali116
43Air crash Germanwings24.03.2015Southern France150
44Earthquake25.04.2015Nepal9
45terrorist attack12.01.2016Istanbul/Turkey13

The figures result from the co-operation with various DVI teams (DVI = Disaster Victim Identification). There can therefore be no differentiation regarding the findings of the German team.

*=advisory mission of the DVI Team