Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA News) - Twenty bodies of the victims of Trigana plane crash were discovered among the wreckage of the ill fated plane on Tuesday morning.

The Trigana plane, which carried 49 passengers and five crew members, had crashed near the Oksob waterfall in the Pegunungan Bintang District, Papua, on Sunday.

Efforts to evacuate 54 people onboard the Trigana Airways aircraft were hampered by extreme weather on Monday.

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