For the fallen: Cenderawasih Kodam soldiers preparing to recover the bodies of the victims in Papua. — The Jakarta Post/ANN
The Indonesian military has discovered the bodies of 12 victims who were on board an Mi-17 Army helicopter that disappeared in June last year, shortly after taking off from an airport in Oksibil in the Pegunungan Bintang regency in Papua.
A recovery team from the Banteng Raider Infantry Battalion (Yonif Raider) of the Cendrawasih Military Command (Kodam) in Papua managed to reach the location at around noon on Friday and found the bodies among the wreckage.
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