Of the 89 bodies retrieved after a passenger plane crashed at Phuket international airport Sunday, 53 have been identified while three persons injured in the accident remain in critical condition, local press said.
The air crash killed 89 of the 130 persons listed onboard. Police forensic officials have so far identified all 32 bodies of Thai nationals, but only 21 of the 57 bodies believed to be foreign nationalities, said Pol. Maj-Gen. Sanyan Chayanon, deputy commissioner of the provincial police in southern region, according to Thai News Agency.
Police said they are awaiting evidence from the relatives of the remaining 36 corpses. Forensic officials have collected fingerprints, dental records, and DNA samples from the bodies, which have been kept in refrigerated containers at Phuket airport.
Relatives of the Thai victims had been allowed to reclaim the bodies of their beloved.
Meanwhile, Public Health Minister Mongkol Na Songkhla, after visiting the 41 injured victims at hospitals in Phuket, disclosed that out of 41 survivors in hospital, 38 people are in stable condition while three others remain in critical condition.
The minister expected most of the survivors would be able to return home within the next two weeks.
He said public health staff are successfully providing medical treatment to all victims wounded in Sunday's disaster. There have been no further fatalities reported.
Psychiatrists have been sent to the three hospitals to talk to patients and their families to help them recover from shock and loss of their beloved, Mongkol said.
On Sunday, a MD-82 passenger jet operated by Thai budget carrier One-Two-Go skid off the runway, broke into two before bursting into flame at Phuket International Airport during a landing attempt in monsoon.
It is the worst air crash Thailand has suffered in nearly a decade, since a Thai Airways Airbus SAS A310-200 plane crashed in a landing attempt in southern province Surat Thani in December 1998, killing 101 of the 146 people on board.
Source: Xinhua
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