PAKSE, Laos (AFP) - Rescuers have recovered the bodies of more than half of the victims of Laos's worst known air disaster, officials said Friday, as families began to hold funerals for the dead.
All those on board died when the Lao Airlines turboprop ATR-72 plunged into the Mekong River in stormy weather on Wednesday near Pakse airport in Champasak province.
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