AirAsia QZ8501: Only three bodies recovered, not 40, says search agency chief


Bambang Soelistyo (right), the Head of the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), speaks during a news conference updating journalists about the search and rescue operation for the missing AirAasia plane, in Jakarta, Indonesia, 30 December 2014. - EPA

JAKARTA: Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) chief said Tuesday that just three bodies had been recovered so far in the search for the Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 plane which crashed in the Java Sea, after another official said 40 had been found.

"Today (Tuesday) we evacuated three bodies and they are now in the warship Bung Tomo," F.H. Bambang Soelistyo told a news conference in Jakarta, adding that they were two females and one male.

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