JAKARTA, Oct. 31, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – A total of 37 bags of body parts from
the crashed Indonesian plane have been brought to a Jakarta hospital for
identification, according to a rescuer on Wednesday.
The Lion Air plane with 189 people onboard crashed into the waters off
karawang of Indonesia’s West Java province shortly after taking off from
Jakarta on Monday.
Rescuers put the body parts they had found earlier into 37 bags and took
them to the police hospital in Jakarta for identification, Yusuf Latief, head
of communication for media of the national search and rescue office said.
“A total of 37 body bags, all of them containing parts of human bodies, the
victims of the Lion Air plane, have been brought to the police hospital,” he
told Xinhua by phone.
More items belonging to the passengers of the Boeing 737 Max 8 jet plane
have also been retrieved by the rescuers, he said.
Latief reaffirmed that the search for the victims and the main wreckage of
the aircraft is still ongoing Wednesday.
The rescuers extended the area of search operation on Wednesday to 15
nautical miles, according to the national search and rescue office deputy
chief Nugroho Budi Wiryanto.