'I don't know what to tell my children,' says wife of JT610 passenger


Helda Aprilia, 31, the wife of Ibnu Fajariyadi Hantoro, 33, a specialist at Bangka Tengah Regional Hospital shows a picture of her husband to reporters at her house in Depok, West Java, on Monday. (Wartakota/-).

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): “How can a mother explain to her two young children that their father will never come home again?”

So said Helda Aprilia, 31, the wife of Ibnu Hantoro, a 33-year-old doctor who was among the 189 people on board Lion Air flight JT610 that crashed into the Java Sea on Monday morning. Their children are 4-year-old Farisa and 1-year-old Fatih

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