By IANS
Nairobi : Rescue workers have given up all hopes of finding any survivors of the Kenya Airways plane that crashed into a swamp near the Cameroonian capital Douala.
The airliner – bound for Kenyan capital Nairobi from Douala – went down early Saturday in southern Cameroon with 114 people aboard, including 15 Indians.
The wreckage was found 36 hours after the plane vanished from radar screens.
Rescue workers at the site – a mangrove swamp – said there were no signs of any survivors.
On Monday, 40 bodies were pulled out of the wreckage of flight KQ 507. The badly mutilated and decomposing bodies were packed in body bags and taken to the Douala military mortuary to allow families to identify them, the Nation newspaper reported.
A Cameroonian official in charge of recovery efforts said he had surveyed the entire site – covering only a few hundred yards in diameter – and no one had survived.