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Some of the 2,600 personnel working in the recovery effort involving dozens of boats and helicopters are hauling body parts, twisted piece of wreckage and passengers clothing from shallow waters about 23 metres deep.
Underwater photos supplied by Indonesia s navy showed a sea floor littered with wreckage.
Body bags filled with human remains are being taken to a police hospital where investigators hope to identify victims by matching DNA from their remains to living relatives.
Indonesian rescuers and Disaster Victim Identification officers check remains including body parts recovered during the search operation of the wreckage.
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Rapin Akbar, who gave a blood sample to the hospital, had five relatives on board including an older sister, a nephew and his wife and their seven-month-old baby.
Sriwijaya plane crash: Families of victims provide 53 DNA samples 11th January 2021
A press conference was held at the Jakarta Police Hospital on the Sriwijaya Air plane crash. (ANTARA / Benardy Ferdiansyah) Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team at the Medical and Health Center of the National Police Hospital has received 53 DNA samples from the families of victims of the Sriwijaya Air plane crash. As of 5 p.m. Western Indonesia time (WIB), the DVI team has received DNA samples from the families of the victims, totaling 53 DNA samples, spokesperson for the National Police Hospital, Brigadier General Pol Rusdi Hartono, said during a press conference in Jakarta on Monday.
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image captionA crisis centre for relatives has been set up at the airport in Jakarta
Relatives of the passengers and crew on board the ill-fated Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 are facing an agonising wait as authorities search for the wreckage.
Sixty-two people were on board the passenger plane which plunged into the sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta on Saturday.
There appears to be no hope of finding survivors.
Although no-one on board has been formally identified, information is emerging from family and friends.
image copyrightEndah We re in grief, still praying for the best, said Ferza Mahardhika, whose uncle was the pilot of the Sriwijaya SJ182 flight.
Rescuers find other human remains of Sriwijaya plane passengers 10th January 2021
Joint SAR team on Sunday (Jan 10, 2021) carried bags filled with debris of the crashed Sriwijaya Air plane flight SJ 182 that crashed in the waters of Seribu Islands, Jakarta, to the Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) 2. ANTARA PHOTO/Dhemas Reviyanto/wsj.
We have handed thee bags of plane debris and five bags of human remains Jakarta (ANTARA) - Rescue workers have retrieved more body parts believed to be those of passengers of Sriwijaya Air plane which crashed in the waters of Seribu Islands on Saturday. We have handed thee bags of plane debris and five bags of human remains, Operations Director of the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) Rasman said at the the Integrated SAR Command Post located in Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) 2 on Sunday.