Hospital ready to hold 150 bodies; families give DNA samples

Wed, 31 December 2014

10:53

Some 130 ambulances were on standby at an airbase in Surabaya close to Juanda International Airport on Wednesday morning, to transport the bodies of passengers on board the doomed Air Asia flight QZ8501. The bodies will be brought to a nearby hospital inside a police complex, where cold storage containers have been prepared to hold 150 bodies.
Read the full report on the Straits Times.

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