Earlier, rescuers reached the site in Papua province where fated Trigana Air flight went down and found the aircraft "completely destroyed", a search and rescue official said.
Officials initially announced they had identified 38 of the 54 bodies, then increased the death toll as rescuers discovered more remains in the dense forests of the mountainous area.
"There are no survivors. All fifty-four bodies have been found," transport ministry spokesman J.A. Barata told AFP.
"Everything was in pieces and part of the plane is burnt. We could see burn marks on some pieces," another official told reporters.
Rescuers were also hunting for the plane's flight data recorders, known as black boxes, which should shed light on what caused the accident.
The plane operated by Indonesian carrier Trigana Air lost contact Sunday as it flew in bad weather from Jayapura, the capital of Papua, to Oksibil, a remote settlement in the south.
The ATR 42-300 twin-turboprop aircraft was also carrying 6.5 billion rupiah ($470,000) in cash, which were social assistance funds intended for distribution to poor families.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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18/8/15
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ReplyDeleteThirty-eight bodies have been found at the site in remote eastern Indonesia where a plane crashed at the weekend, the transport ministry said.
"Thirty-eight bodies — 37 adults and a child — have been found at the crash site," transport ministry spokesman J A Barata told AFP. "We are unable to evacuate them as the weather is very bad."
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