JAKARTA: East Java Police’s Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team has identified the bodies of eight more of the 162 people on board AirAsia flight QZ8501.
The East Java Police’s medical and health department chief Brig. Gen. Budiyono, announced on Wednesday afternoon that the DVI team had identified eight bodies which had been recovered by the Search and Rescue team between the first day of operation through to last week.
“Based on primary identification data, such as teeth and matching DNA with the father, the body labelled B007 is Ratri Sri Andriyani, a 30-year-old female who lived in Surabaya,” Budiyono told the press at a conference in Surabaya, Wednesday.
The bodies labelled B011 and B012 were said to be those of Jou Christine Yuanita and Soetikno Sia, respectively.
Jou Christine Yuanita was a 62-year-old female, while Soetikno Sia was a 60-year-old male. Both lived in Surabaya.
The body labelled B010 was that of Ruth Natalia Made Puspitasari, a 26-year-old female who resided in Blitar, East Java.
“The body labelled B014 is Indah Juliansih, a 44-year-old woman from Surabaya. We found matching ante-mortem and post-mortem data, and we also found a necklace with a pendant with the initial L on her body, which the family confirmed belonged to Indah,” he said, adding that B017 was a 17-year-old male student named Nico Giovani from Surabaya.
In addition, the bodies numbered B023 and B032 were those of Rudy Soetjipto and Stephanie Yulianto.
“Rudy was a 54-year-old man from Malang (East Java), while Stephanie was a young girl, 14 years old, who resided in Probolinggo (East Java),” he added.
In total, he said, the police had identified 24 of 40 bodies that had been recovered from the Karimata Strait in the Java Sea. – The Jakarta Post/ANN
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