Basarnas receives 45 body bags from Sriwijaya Air victims



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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –

Basarnas received up to 45 body bags as a result of the joint team’s Day 3 search that took place today Monday (1/11). The search was carried out around the waters of the Thousand Islands, Jakarta or the crash site. Sriwijaya Air SJ 182, Last Saturday (1/9).

“Today we received 27 body bags containing human remains, so today we have a total of 45 body bags,” he said on Monday (1/11).

Not just the body parts of the victims of the Boeing 737-524 aircraft incident, the joint SAR Team also found dozens of small and large pieces of aircraft parts.

Total finds as of Monday (1/11) at 7.30pm WIB, that is, 15 bags of large pieces or fragments and 22 bags of small pieces of finds.

The pieces of the body were immediately taken to the Kramat Jati Hospital in East Jakarta to be carried out by the Police Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team. Meanwhile, the debris was turned over to the National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC).

A report from the DVI Police Team at 5pm WIB, Monday (11/1), 53 DNA samples were received from the families of the victims of the Sriwijaya Air SJ 182 passengers. The samples were received by the DVI team from various areas where the passenger’s family came from.

The victim’s family can provide various pieces of information to the DVI team to support the body identification process. These include ante-mortem or general data and data from the victim’s medical history.

The Sriwijaya Air SJ 182 plane that flew from Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Cengkareng to Pontianak, West Kalimantan, last Saturday (9/1), crashed in the waters of the Thousand Islands.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Transport, Sriwijaya Air SJ 182 carried a total of 62 people consisting of 50 passengers and 12 crew members. Up to 40 of the total passengers are adult passengers, seven of them are children and three are babies.

(khr / bmw)

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