24 bodies found from jet crash
08:50, 9 June 2009
RIO DE JANEIRO. June 9. KAZINFORM Eight more bodies of the passengers on the crashed Air France jetliner have been found, raising the total number of the recovered bodies to 24, Brazil's military said on Monday; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
The bodies were found in an area some 440 kilometers northeast of the Sao Pedro and Sao Paulo Islands where the water depth reaches 3,500 meters.
According to Lieutenant Colonel Henry Munhoz, spokesman for the Air Force, the recovered bodies and wreckage are being taken first to a military staging area at the Fernando de Noronha islands, and then to the northeastern coastal city of Recife for identification; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
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