Lion Air JT610 Crash: The Victims are Mostly Bangka Belitung Residents

TIMESINDONESIA, JAKARTA – Most of the Lion Air JT610 passengers in which crashed in Karawang, West Java, turned out as Bangka Belitung Residents, the amount reached of 128 people from total of 189 passengers.

The number was revealed after the Governor of Bangka Belitung, DR (HC) H. Erzaldi Rosman, S.E, MM and Head of the National Police Medical and Health Center (Kapusdokkes), Police Brig. Gen. Dr. Arthur Tampi in Jakarta, Wednesday (10/31/2018) afternoon.

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However, from the total to the passengers from Bangka Belitung, none of them have been identified.

"Today we got 24 bodies of bodies containing body parts. We will still carry out the identification process to 24 bodies on last Tuesday (10/30/2018). We will also finish it today," said Dr. Arthur Tampi.

Arthur Tampi also said, up to now it has taken 152 DNA samples from families of plane passenger victims. The DNA sample will be profiled with ante mortem and the results will be known 4-8 days ahead. Reconciliation will also continue.

This reconciliation is a meeting which will be comparing antemortem data with post mortem. If it matches, then the body is identified. "If identified, then at the first opportunity a death certificate will be issued for various purposes," said Arthur.

Moreover, Arthur added that if until the time limit specified is still not identified, then there will be a mechanism in the Court to issue a Death Decree for juridical purposes.

While the Governor of Bangka Belitung said that he had prepared everything that would later be needed if there had been certainty about the results of identification of the victims.

"We have prepared at least 80 ambulances and paramedics. In fact, we are planning a ceremony to hand over and accept the bodies in the Governor's office because among the victims there are five of our employees," Erzaldi said.

The Governor of Bangka Belitung also gave a high appreciation for the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Team which served in the Indonesian Police Hospital, Jakarta, which continued to work hard in its efforts to identify victims of the Lion Air JT610 aircraft that crashed in Karawang waters. (*)

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