AirAsia QZ8501: First victim identified via personal items

Indonesian local security guards and a relative carry a coffin with the remains of Hayati Lutfiah at her funeral in Surabaya on January 1, 2015. - AFP

Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) East Java head Budiyono said this was confirmed after a post mortem was carried out on the remains.

“We managed to match her identity based on her finger prints and personal belongings,” he told a press conference at Bhayangkara Hospital, here Thursday.