Surabaya, E Java (Antara) -- The Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team of the East Java Police has identified two more bodies of victims of the ill-fated AirAsia QZ8501 flight, which crashed on December 28.
"The body labeled B030 was identified as 20-year-old Elisabet Youvita, a resident of Surabaya," DVI Head of the East Java Police Senior Commissioner Budiyono said here on Monday.
The second body, which was labeled B043, was identified as David Gunawan (37), also a resident of Surabaya.
"Results of the preliminary inspection matched the data provided by the victims' families and the properties attached to their bodies," Budiyono explained.
"The goal is to obtain accurate results that can be accounted for by both medicine and law," he added.
Of the 48 bodies recovered, 14 are still in the process of being identified at the Bhayangkara Regional Police Hospital in Surabaya. (*) Reporting by Abdul Malik Ibrahim
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