Irkutsk, Russia - Rescuers gave up their search for more air crash victims in Irkutsk yesterday, where most of the 66 charred bodies remained unidentified after a cargo jet slammed into a residential district on Saturday.
Relatives had identified just 17 of the 66 sets of remains brought to the morgue, NTV television reported, as the first pieces of wreckage from the Antonov An-124 cargo plane arrived in Moscow for painstaking examination. Two young girls, who were among the victims already identified, were buried yesterday in the eastern Siberian city.
A parliament deputy for Irkutsk and member of the government commission of inquiry said 25 people were still unaccounted for. Two children were in a critical condition in hospital. Many of the 15 people injured in the crash had severe burns.