69 Bodies Recovered From Air Crash Site

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69 Bodies Recovered From Air Crash Site

A total of 69 bodies have been retrieved from the sea near the port of Dalian in northeast China' s Liaoning Province, the site an MD-82 aircraft of China Northern Airlines crashed Tuesday night.

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A total of 69 bodies have been retrieved from the sea near the port of Dalian in northeast China' s Liaoning Province, the site an MD-82 aircraft of China Northern Airlines crashed Tuesday night.

By press time, 59 bodies had been identified by legal medical experts.

The rescuers are still making all-out efforts to search the bodies of other victims, the bulk debris of the plane and its black box flight recorder.

The signals sent from the black box have been monitored.

More than 400 relatives of the victims have arrived in Dalian

and been accommodated in five hotels in the city.

The MD-82 airliner carried 112 passengers and crew on a flight from Beijing to Dalian. No survivor has been found.

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