The United Nations has confirmed that the remains of the 17 people aboard an aid flight which went down in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Monday have been located in the vicinity of the crash site, according to the news release on the U.N. website Thursday.
Seven U.N. staff were among those on the plane which crashed as it was preparing to land in bad weather in the eastern Congolese province of South Kivu.
Search and rescue teams located the site of the accident, some 16 km northwest of Bukavu airport.
"The process of positive identification of the remains will now be undertaken," U.N. spokesperson Michele Montas told reporters in New York.
Alan Doss, the U.N. secretary-general's Special Representative in the DRC, dispatched his deputy, Ross Mountain, to Bukavu to support aid operations and the humanitarian community after the crash.
Source:Xinhua
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