REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Relatives have claimed 176 bodies of the passengers of ill fated Lion Air plane that crashed in to the sea off Tanjung Karawang, West Java, with 189 people on board on Monday. All 189 passengers and crew members of the aircraft are feared dead, Assistant Manager of the Lion Group Tri Siswoyo said here on Tuesday.

Rescue workers picked the bodies from sea since Monday and were brought to the Crisis Center at the International Airport of Halim Perdanakusuma of Jakarta.

He said the relatives of the 176 victims came to the Crisis Center submitting a report until late afternoon on Tuesday. The relatives of three other victims identified as Ariyanti Reni, Susilo Wahyu, and Widjaya Risma have not come to submit reports to the crisis centers, Tri said.

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