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View all search resultsIslands in focus: Unclaimed plane victims to be buried en masse
MEDAN: The North Sumatra Police said on Friday that they would bury 10 bodies and 22 body parts of the victims of a recent Hercules military aircraft crash in a mass grave if they were not claimed by their family members in the next six months
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EDAN: The North Sumatra Police said on Friday that they would bury 10 bodies and 22 body parts of the victims of a recent Hercules military aircraft crash in a mass grave if they were not claimed by their family members in the next six months.
'We will bury the remaining victims of the crash together if none of their family members take them home,' North Sumatra Police chief spokesman Sr. Comr. Helfi Assegaf said.
The remains, according to Helfi, are being kept at the police's Mobile Brigade Hospital in Medan.
An Indonesian Air Force Hercules C-130 transportation aircraft crashed into a densely populated area on Jl. Jamin Ginting, Medan, on June 30, claiming the lives of 110 passengers and 12 crew members. At least eight local residents were also killed in the incident.
The 51-year-old aircraft went down two minutes after taking off from the Soewondo military airbase, heading for Tanjung Pinang, Riau Islands, to transport logistics to a number of Air Force bases.
