MANILA, Philippines—The identification of fatalities in the C-130 crash in Sulu is taking time because many of those who died were beyond recognition, according to Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Cirilito Sobejana.
“Some of those who died are really beyond recognition,” Sobejana said in an interview with Teleradyo. “Their bodies were badly burned,” he said.
Only seven of the dead soldiers have been identified so far, he said.
One of the wounded soldiers, who had initially survived the crash, had died because of injuries, Sobejana told reporters in a separate interview.
This brought the overall death toll to 53—50 of the 96 passengers on board the C-130 plane an…
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