Body of sole Malaysian on QZ8501 identified 
MalaysiaKini.com
Feb 10, 2015 

QZ8501 The body of the only Malaysian passenger, Sii Chung Huei, in the AirAsia QZ8501 crash in the Java Sea last Dec 28, was identified by Indonesian authorities yesterday.

Malaysian ambassador to Indonesia Zahrain Mohamed Hashim said the body was found a few days ago but was only confirmed as that of Sii yesterday after the DNA testing was done.

The body had been sent to Bhayangkara Hospital in Surabaya after it was found by the Indonesian search team.

“The embassy in Jakarta will arrange for Sii’s remains to be handed over to his family members tomorrow in Surabaya before the remains will be flown back to Sarawak on a Royal Malaysian Air Force aircraft on Wednesday,” Zahrain said when contacted in Jakarta yesterday.

Zahrain said he himself would meet with Sii’s family members who had long been waiting in Surabaya and an embassy officer would be accompanying Sii’s remains on the flight to Sarawak.

Sii, 56, a businessman from Kuching but based in Jakarta, was on the ill-fated aircraft en route to Singapore from Surabaya on Dec 28, last year when it crashed.

There were 162 people on board but so far, 100 bodies have been found by the search authorities, who also found the plane’s black box two weeks ago.

The search operation by Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Body (Basarnas) is still on.

- Bernama

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