BRASILIA, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian authorities
said Sunday that 11 bodies have been identified from the 50 retrieved from the
Air France Flight 447 which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1.
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A handout picture from the Brazilian
Navy released on June 22, 2009 shows Brazilian Navy warships searching for
debris from Air France Airbus A330 out of the Atlantic Ocean. Brazilian
Navy announced on Monday that they found more debris of the crashed Air
France Airbus A330. (Xinhua Photo) Photo
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Ten bodies were identified as Brazilian, including
five men and five women, and another one as a foreign male, said a statement
issued by a task force made up of Brazil's federal police and the Public Safety
Department of the northeastern state of Pernambuco.
The nationality of the non-Brazilian victim was not
revealed.
Authorities have notified the families of the
Brazilian victims and the embassy of the foreigner, the statement said.
According to the Chinese Embassy's spokesman He Yuan,
the Chinese Embassy in Brazil had got no phone calls on the victim
identification.
According to the statement, Brazil has not got all
the identity information of some foreign victims, adding that it will take some
time to identify more victims.
Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330-200, went
missing when traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with 228 people on board in
the early hours of June 1.
So far 50 bodies have been recovered and
investigators are still looking for the cause of the tragedy.
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