Myanmar navy ship, fishermen find bodies in search for plane
SAN HLAN, Myanmar — Fishermen joined navy and air force personnel Thursday in recovering bodies and aircraft parts from the sea off Myanmar, where a military plane carrying 122 people including 15 children crashed a day earlier, officials said.
By nightfall Thursday, the bodies of 31 people — 21 women, eight children and two men — had been recovered, said military spokesman Gen. Myat Min Oo.
The bodies, pulled from the sea and taken aboard large fishing vessels and navy ships, had been transferred to smaller boats which transported them into shallow water on the beach at San Hlan village, where soldiers put the body bags on stretchers and carried them to waiting trucks.
The plane carried 108 passengers — mostly military personnel and their families — and 14 crew members, according to an announcement on the Facebook page of military Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing.