BBC-Burmese aircrash bodies found

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Friday, August 28, 1998 Published at 13:11 GMT 14:11 UK 

Burmese aircrash bodies found 

The Burmese Government has announced that all 36 passengers and crew on
board an aircraft that crashed in a mountainous area in the east of the
country have died. 

On Friday, officials began informing family members that the remains of
those onboard the plane had been found near the town of Tachilek, in Shan
state, close to the borders with Laos and Thailand. 

A government statement said that the wreckage was discovered about 2am
local time on Friday by a search party. 

A spokesman said: "They found all 36 bodies of those on board." 

The dead included four crew members and three babies, he said. 

The Fokker F-27 turboprop took off from the Burmese capital Rangoon on
Monday on a scheduled two-hour domestic flight east to the Golden Triangle
region, known for opium growing. 

A Transport Ministry official said it came down in poor weather.