Death toll in Indonesia air crash rises to 53: official

Indonesian search teams have found the bodies of 53 of the 54 people on board a Trigana Air passenger aircraft that crashed in the mountainous interior of eastern Papua province, a transportation ministry official said on Tuesday.

The National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) was still searching for one infant, Transportation Ministry spokesman Julius Adravida Barata told Reuters by text message.

(Reporting by Wilda Asmarini; Writing by Fergus Jensen; By Paul Tait)