Searching for signs of life

Holding on to hope: Rescue workers carrying equipment near the site where China Eastern flight MU5375 crashed near Wuzhou in Guangxi province. — AFP

Wuzhou: Recovery teams deployed drones and thermal imaging equipment across a mountainous area where a China Eastern plane inexplicably crashed with 132 people on board.

Four days after flight MU5735 ploughed into rugged terrain near Wuzhou in southern China, officials are still yet to declare all of the 123 passengers and nine crew dead.