More body victims found

JAKARTA (JP): Rescue workers have found the remains of three victims of the Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300-B4 which crashed last month in North Sumatra, Antara reported yesterday.

The rescue team, searching for the missing flight data recorder, found the remains of two women and a man in the Buah Nabar village of the Sibolangit subdistrict, Deli Serdang regency Wednesday.

The man was identified as Soekamto of Tanjung Morawa, Deli Serdang. The two female victims have yet to be identified but one of them had a false upper tooth.

Soekamto, identified by his identity card and mobile phone set, was born on Nov. 15, 1941 in Bagan Siapi-api in Riau.

According to the news agency, Soekamto was a director of PT Citra Sandang Graha Tanjung Morawa.

After working for 20 days, the search and rescue team has yet to find the missing recorder, known as the black box, which was supposed to have been aboard the aircraft. The crash took place on Sept. 26 when the plane was approaching Polonia Airport in Medan.

All 234 passengers and crew members were killed instantly.

Many of the bodies of the victims were not found intact. Among those buried in a mass grave, for instance, were four coffins that consisted of charred limbs and remains.

The black box is vital in determining the cause of an air crash. The crash was the worst air disaster in the country's aviation history. (aan)