Mass funeral to be held for victims of Indonesian air crash

A mass funeral is to be held in Indonesia on January the nineteenth for the one hundred and four people aboard a Singaporean airliner which crashed last month.

The burial of the mostly unidentified remains will take place in a public garden in Palembang, a city about fifty kilometres south of the crash site on Sumatra.

Details were announced by the Indonesian Minister of Transportation, Haryanto Dhanutirto, after meeting Singaporean officials.

Mr Dhanutirto is reported to have said that a common grave would be prepared and a monument erected.

RADIO H/L: A mass funeral is to be held in Indonesia soon for the one hundred and four people killed when a Singaporean airliner crashed last month.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service