Relatives of passengers of the Lao Airlines plane crash pray near the site of the tragedy along the banks of the Mekong river in Pakse town on October 18, 2013. -AFP
PAKSE, Laos: Lao Airlines on Saturday said it had identified almost half of the 30 bodies so far recovered after a plane carrying dozens of people, many of them foreign travellers, plunged into the Mekong River.
In the country's deadliest known air disaster, all those on board died when the Lao Airlines turboprop ATR-72 plunged into the swollen waters in stormy weather on Wednesday near Pakse airport in Champasak province.
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