The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
A
senior minister says people should stop circulating pictures of the victims of
the Sukhoi Superjet 100 that crashed near Mt. Salak in West Java.
“I
have received information that pictures of the victims have already been
circulating through mobile phones. This kind of action will be painful for the
victims’ families. Please, stop it,” Coordinating People’s Welfare Minister
Agung Laksono told reporters at Halim Perdanakusuma airport in East Jakarta on
Saturday as quoted by kompas.com.
Agung's
statement follows the circulation on BlackBerry Messenger on Friday of a photo
purportedly taken at the crash site depicting the remains of two victims.
Meanwhile,
dozens of relatives of the victims have assembled in front of the National
Police Hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta, where officials have taken five
body bags containing the partial remains of victims and their personal effects
for identification.
Officials
have prepared tents in the hospital's courtyard, along with televisions tuned
to news stations, for relatives as they wait.
Separately,
Sr. Comr. Anton Castilani, chief of the National Police’s disaster victim
identification unit, said autopsies of the victims might take weeks, months or
even years given that the remains were not intact and decomposition had already
begun.
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