Indonesian defence and rescue personnel pay their respects in front of victims' coffins unloaded from the hold of a Trigana Air ATR 42 aircraft (background). - AFP
JAYAPURA, Indonesia, Aug 20, 2015 (AFP) - The bodies of all 54 people killed in a plane crash in eastern Indonesia have been recovered from a remote jungle site and flown to hospital, an official said Thursday.
Authorities had initially hoped to use helicopters to transport the remains of Sunday’s crash from the site in Papua province, but bad weather meant the bodies had to be carried on foot out of the jungle.
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