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    Bereaved families to return home with water, sand from crash area
    by Dmitry Nezdorovin

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    May 6, 2006 Saturday 09:54 AM EST

    SOCHI, May 6 -- Russian Deputy Transport Minister Sergei Aristov has
    recommended to relatives of people who died in the recent air crash
    near Sochi to return home.

    He promised that all documents concerning their loved ones would be
    prepared and mailed to families.

    The A-320 plane of Armenia's company Armavia that was en route from
    Yerevan to Russia's sea resort of Sochi crashed into the Black Sea
    during a landing approach in the night of May 3, killing all 113
    people on the board.

    No bodies could be found in the sea over the past 24 hours.

    Fifty-three bodies have been recovered in search operations, 42 of
    which have been identified.

    "The work will be continued until a decision is made to wind up the
    search operation because of its hopelessness," Aristov said.

    About 180 people are staying in Sochi since the news of the demise
    of the plane came to them.

    Their initial shock of realisation of the loss appears to have blunted,
    but the smell of sedative medicines fills Sochi's hotels where the
    bereaved have been put up.

    Armenia's Ambassador to Russia Armen Sambatyan said that families
    of the unfound dead would take home the seawater and sand from the
    crash area.
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