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Indonesia revises death toll of fire plane
www.chinaview.cn 2007-03-07 17:26:43
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Indonesian Air Force personnel spray water at the wreckage of a Garuda Indonesia Airways jetliner which caught fire upon landing at Adisucipto airport in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 7, 2007.

Indonesian Air Force personnel spray water at the wreckage of a Garuda Indonesia Airways jetliner which caught fire upon landing at Adisucipto airport in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 7, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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    JAKARTA, March 7 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government revised the number of death toll of the fire plane in Yogyakarta province from 49 to 21, the provincial administration said on Wednesday.

    Spokesman of the provincial administration Alex Syamsury said that 20 bodies of the death were found in the plane and another died after exit from the aircraft.

    While the fates of some others are still unknown, he said.

    "The right information is that it was found 20 burned-bodies on the plane, and another body outside the plane," he told Xinhua by phone from the province.

    The spokesman said that based on the data of the manifest the number of passengers and the crews were 140 people, and now 113 people had been confirmed of being treated in the hospitals in the city.

    The spokesman confirmed that foreign citizens from Australia, Malaysia and Japan, were also on board, but he declined to give further details about them.

    The Boeing 737-400 belonging to flag carrier Garuda Indonesia bursted into blaze Wednesday morning after landing at Adi Sucipto Airport of the province, the spokesman said, adding that the plane landed too far from it supposed to be and skid off the runway.

Editor: Gao Ying
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