Bodies recovered from crash site

Mbanga-Pongo, Cameroon: Rescue workers in Cameroon pulled remains of victims from a fetid swamp on Monday, two days after a Kenya Airways plane crashed killing all 114 people on board.
The plane was found late on Sunday in a mangrove swamp 20 km from Douala airport.
In a round crater gouged out of the bush, victims' remains lay amid clothes, personal belongings and plane debris in a hole filled with muddy water smelling of jet fuel and decomposition.
Apart from the plane's nose jammed down into the mud, there was little left of the rest of the aircraft.
KQ 507 went missing with 105 passengers and nine crew early on Saturday, shortly after leaving Douala for Nairobi in torrential rain. The Boeing 737-800 was found late on Sunday not far from Douala airport after nearly two days of fruitless searches more than 100 km further south.
Earlier Cameroon's civil protection service officials were quoted as saying that there was no chance of survivors from the plane, which is largely submerged in a swamp.
In a morning news bulletin, Cameroon's state radio said: "All the people on board the plane perished as there was no sign of survivors".

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India to fly relatives to
Nairobi

Thiruvananthapuram: Overseas
Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar
Ravi told Kerala-based TV channels
in New Delhi that his Ministry
would make arrangements to fly
bereaved relatives to Nairobi. He
had asked the Indian High
Commission at Nairobi to send
him updates on Indian casualties.
There were 15
Indians in the Nairobi-bound aircraft
carrying 114 people.
07/05/07 John Mary
Peninsula On-line, Qatar
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The radio said the plane had been discovered 20 kilometres southeast of Douala by a hunter, who alerted local authorities.
Rescuers battled through swamps and thick forest early on Monday to reach the wreckage after parts of the aircraft were found late on Sunday in a swamp, and locals reported making grim discoveries in the thick bush.
"I saw one body and one arm," resident Guiffo Gande told reporters in Mbanga Pongo village, an area of dense mangrove swamps some 20 km east of Douala.
"We also saw some seats and a piece of plane about the size of a car door," Gande said, adding that he had not seen the plane's fuselage, engines or tail.
Search aircraft flew overhead, as troops and police carrying gas masks and plastic bags gathered at the end of a muddy road and then hacked deep into the waterlogged forest.
07/05/07 The Standard, Kenya

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