Day after Indonesia crash, rescuers find child survivor

As Indonesia prepared to hold a mass burial for the scores of unidentified victims who died as a Boeing 737 slammed into a residential area ...

As Indonesia prepared to hold a mass burial for the scores of unidentified victims who died as a Boeing 737 slammed into a residential area in Medan city on Monday, a five-year-old child who was separated from his father in the crash, has been found alive, officials said.

Pento Panjaitan and his father had both been on the ill-fated flight, but had been taken to different hospitals for their injuries. Doctors identified the child and contacted his parents.

Monday’s disaster in Indonesia’s third-largest city killed 102 of the 117 aboard the Mandala Airlines domestic flight and another 47 people on the ground. There was still no word on the cause of the accident.

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TV footage on Tuesday showed uniformed airline staff hugging one another and weeping as the bodies of the two pilots and some crew arrived in Jakarta in flag-draped coffins. A mass burial has been set for Wednesday.

A sombre President Yudhoyono visited the wreckage-strewn site on Tuesday. He has ordered an investigation into aviation safety. —Reuters

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