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Three more AirAsia bodies identified

The East Java Police’s Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team identified three more AirAsia QZ8501 passengers on Friday afternoon

Indra Harsaputra (The Jakarta Post)
Surabaya
Fri, January 2, 2015 Published on Jan. 2, 2015 Published on 2015-01-02T19:35:23+07:00

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he East Java Police'€™s Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team identified three more AirAsia QZ8501 passengers on Friday afternoon.

East Java Police DVI chief Comr. Sr. Budiyono said the bodies of Grayson Herbert Linaksita, Kevin Alexander Soetjipto and Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi had been identified.

Grayson, 11, lived in Surabaya, East Java, with his family while Kevin was a student at Melbourne'€™s Monash University in Australia whose family lives in Malang, a city near Surabaya.

Meanwhile, Khairunisa was a flight attendant from Palembang, South Sumatra.

Budiyono said that the three remains had been released to their families on Friday evening.

"We are now examining four more bodies [at Bhayangkara Hospital],'€ he said.

He said that the DVI team had received antemortem records of family members of the passengers.

He said the team did not have the antemortem records related to AirAsia QZ8501 co-pilot Remi Emmanuel Plesel.

Plesel, a French national, had 2,275 flight hours under his belt. (nfo)(++++)

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