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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. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) 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.