‘Focus is now on retrieving remaining bodies’


Grief and sorrow: Joko (right) together with AirAsia Group CEO Tan Sri Tony Fernandes (left) addressing the media at the Juanda International Airport in Surabaya. (inset) A family member crying after hearing confirmation of the crash. — AZLINA ABDULLAH / The Star

SURABAYA: Indonesian president Joko Widodo said the primary focus of the search mission now was to retrieve the bodies of the remaining passengers and crew members of the doomed Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501.

Joko, who was at Pangkalan Bun in central Kalimantan where several bodies and debris had been taken, said that a mass search operation would be conducted this morning.

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