Rescuers find 18 bodies in Indonesia plane crash

The bodies of all 18 people who were on board a plane that crashed into the jungle-covered mountains of western Indonesia were recovered from the wreckage Saturday, rescuers said.

The Spanish-designed CASA C-212 lost contact with air traffic control early Thursday while flying from North Sumatra to Aceh province. Minutes later, it sent out a distress signal, then dropped off the radar.

Rugged, forested terrain and bad weather had prevented rescuers from reaching the crash site by foot, and the wreckage was spotted from a helicopter Friday in the Leuser mountains at an altitude of 5,000 feet (1,524 meters).

Early Saturday, 13 rescuers were lowered from a helicopter by rope to the crash site, following two others who had reached the site just before darkness fell Friday.

"They found the bodies still tied with the seat belt on their seats," Sunarbowo Sandi, head of the local search-and-rescue team, told The Associated Press from his monitoring post in a village near the crash site in the Bahorok region, about 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) northwest of the capital, Jakarta.

The bodies included all 14 passengers and four crew members. Four of the dead were children.

Hopes had been raised that there may be survivors after the aircraft was spotted intact with one of its doors open, and rescuers dropped food and medicine down to the crash site.

The victims' relatives, who had been waiting for information, broke down in tears when they learned that their loved ones were found dead.

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Hackers 'kill' Obama in I-Day hoax

WASHINGTON: Internet vandals hacked into Fox News' Twitter account and "assassinated' ' President Obama on Monday, but the morbid hoax was killed swiftly in an era of instant communication.

Hackers broke into the conservative media network's Twitter feed and issued a series of six tweets reporting that Obama had been shot to death at a restaurant in Iowa and the shooter was unknown.

One tweet, using Obama's Twitter handle to inform him of his own "death,'' read, "President @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds would have proved too much. It's sad 4th for #america #obamadead RIP.''

Another tweet anointed vice-president Joe Biden as the successor, saying, "We wish @joebiden the best of luck as our new President of the United States. In such a time of madness, there's light at the end of the tunnel.''

President Obama was safely ensconced in the White House with plans to spend the July Fourth holiday at a barbecue on the South lawn with military families and administration staffers, followed by a concert and viewing of Independence Day fireworks.

A group connected to the hacker collective Anonymous calling itself "scriptkiddies' ' claimed credit for the attack, mocking Fox News "because we figured their security would be just as much of a joke as their reporting".

In a brief statement posted on its website, Fox News said it "regrets any distress the false tweets may have created' ' and said the hacking is being investigated. The attack is the latest in the series of wanton hacking of corporate and government websites by so-called "hacktivists" .

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President @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds would have proved too much. It's sad 4th for #america #obamadead RIP We wish @joebiden the best of luck as our new president of the United States. In such a time of madness, there's light at the end of the tunnel.
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