Anger as families wait for victims’ remainspublished at 04:25 Greenwich Mean Time
At the S Korea airport where families await news of crash victims
Hundreds of grieving people have been camping out at Muan International Airport, furious that they have not yet seen the bodies of their loved ones.
At the airport yesterday, police superintendent general Na Won-o explained amid angry shouts that the delay was due to officials taking their time to carefully identify all 179 victims, whose bodies were badly damaged in the crash.
“Can you promise that they will be put back together?” a middle-aged man asked, visibly emotional.
Among the relatives of victims the BBC spoke to was Shin Gyu-ho, who lost his two grandsons and son-in-law.
While the body of Shin’s son-in-law has been identified, he was told that his two grandsons – a high-school sophomore and a senior – were “too scattered to be recognised”.
Read more from the families as they await further updates.