Crime: Your fingerprints could reveal more than you imagine

Police officers control cars entering dusitD2 Hotel as the car that attackers used is dusted for fingerprints on January 17. [File, Standard]

When guns and sirens were finally muted, hard-nosed investigators scoured the scene of disaster with a tooth comb. Of interest to the sleuths was the exact place where the madness started. Huge parts of the complex were a scene of crime not to be tampered with.

Painfully, the investigators separated pieces of broken glass, twisted metal, clothes and what looked remains of victims and terrorists. Each piece of exhibit collected at dusitD2 Hotel was meticulously labelled and bagged for forensic analysis.