Plane crash victim laid to rest


In loving memory: Refa holding a photo of Okky while being comforted by a relative during his funeral in Jakarta. — AFP

Sobbing friends and relatives filed into a Jakarta cemetery to bury the remains of a flight attendant from the crashed Indonesian passenger jet, as divers restarted their hunt for its second black box.

Okky Bisma, 29, was the first confirmed victim of Saturday’s disaster after fingerprints from his retrieved hand were matched to those on a government identity database.

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