Karawang (ANTARA News) - The search and rescue operation for the Lion Air JT610 plane that crashed in the Tanjung Karawang waters, West Java, is expanded, as sea currents have scattered the aircraft`s debris.

"Bodies of the victims and the plane`s debris are forecast to have drifted away from the crash site," a Navy Task Force Major Kurnia Hendra stated at the Pakisjaya evacuation post in Karawang on Tuesday.

The joint evacuation team in Pakisjaya has found some body parts and debris of the ill-fated JT610 aircraft and brought them to Tanjung Priok in North Jakarta.

"We brought them all to Tanjung Priok via sea transportation," he revealed.

Meanwhile, a spokesman of the West Java Police Sen. Com Trunoyudho remarked that as of Tuesday afternoon, three bags have already been sent to the Disaster Victim Identification team of the West Java Police in the Tanjung Pakis camp.

Two of the bags contained body parts, while another bag contained the aircraft`s debris. The evacuation team will place the body parts in orange bags, while debris of the plane will be put in black bags.

The body parts were sent to the Police Hospital R Said Soekanto in East Jakarta, he added.



Reported by M Ali Khumaini

Editing by Sri Haryati

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