Indonesia’s plane crash:
Death toll climbs to 97
INDONESIA: The death toll of Indonesia’s Air force Hercules plane
crash in East Java reached 97, with 27 others wounded, the health
ministry said on Wednesday. Health official reported that there were 15
fatalities in Sudono Hospital with nine people injured, and there were
57 deaths at Iswahyudi Hospital, with 19 people injured, head of crisis
center of the Ministry Rustam Pakaya said.
However the identification and checking on the victims was being
conducting, he said.
“It must be avoided two pieces of one body to be counted into two
persons,” he told Xinhua.
The final result would be announced later after the officials
completed their works, said Pakaya.
The Hercules was reported to have ploughed into homes on the ground
as it crashed and caught fire in Magetan.
The plane C-130 Hercules Alpha 1325 was on its way from Halim
Perdanakusuma Airport in Jakarta for Biak in Papua when it crashed only
fours kilometer from Iswahyudi Airport.
A metro television footage showed the body of the plane was broken
into two parts and burnt into flames. JAKARTA, Wednesday, Xinhua
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