Algeria: Identification of Air Algérie Victims Begins

Investigators have begun combing the site and wreckage of Air Algérie's Flight AH 5017 that crashed in Gossi in northern Mali on July 24, 2014, killing all 118 people aboard; almost half of them French. Meanwhile, the plane's two black boxes or data flight recorders have been recovered and sent to France for investigations as the country observes three days of national mourning.

Radio France Internationale, RFI, reported yesterday, July 28, 2014 that almost 200 body parts have already been recovered, though high temperatures and heavy rains were making the task of investigators difficult. Eye witnesses say the impact of the crash was such that hardly anything was left intact; with the debris spread over a wide area of about 300 metres.

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