SAR Team Spots Oil Spill from AirAsia

Jakarta (Antara) - The search and rescue team has spotted an oil spill from AirAsia QZ8501, which crashed into the waters off the Karimata Strait in Central Kalimantan on Sunday. "We have seen the oil spill there," chief of the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), Rear Marshal F Henry Bambang Soelistyo, said here on Friday. The location of the oil spill is in the main search and evacuation sector in the Karimata Strait, where debris and several bodies have been found. Soelistyo said that as of Friday, 30 bodies have been found and evacuated. "Until now, the number of bodies found has reached 30 and the process of sending 10 of them to Surabaya is in progress, while four others have been kept in Pangkalan Bun," he said here on Friday. (*)