Bodies of 4 Indonesia plane crash victims found


Rescue personnel carrying the body of a victim of a plane crash last week, at the airport in Timika, Papua, today. Indonesia relies heavily on air transport to connect its thousands of islands, but mountainous Papua is a particularly difficult area to reach. – AFP pic, September 25, 2019.

THE bodies of four passengers of an Indonesian cargo plane that went missing in Papua a week ago have been recovered, said the national search-and-rescue agency today.

The DHC-6 Twin Otter took off from the city of Timika for a short journey to Ilaga, a mountainous region in the remote eastern province of Papua.


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