13 more bodies from Air France Flight 447 recovered

Sixteen of those bodies have been sent to the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, where technicians from Brazil's Federal Police and the Pernambuco state police have started the preliminary identification work, said Air Force Lieutenant-Brigadier Ramon Borges Cardoso. The remaining 25 bodies, already on route to Fernando de Noronha, are expected to arrive on Wednesday, Cardoso said. The preliminary identification involves cataloguing of all personal belongings on the bodies, as well as fingerprint and DNA sample collection. In case fingerprints and personal belongings fail to identify the bodies, a DNA comparison with samples collected from the relatives of all the flight's passengers will be conducted; Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chinaview.cn for full version