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ByDewiNurcahyani and Robin Mcdowell TheAssociatedPress PANGKALAN BUN, INDONE- SIA Thefirstproofofthe fate of AirAsia Flight 8501 emerged Tuesday from the shallow, aqua-colored wa- ters of the Java Sea, con- firming that the plane crashed with 162 people aboard in an area not far from where it dropped off radar screens. Two days after the jet vanished, searchers found as many as six bodies and debris that included a life jacket, an emergency exit door and a suitcase about 10 miles from the plane's last known coordinates. The airliner's disap- pearance halfway through a two-hour flight between Surabaya, Indonesia, and Singapore triggered an in- ternational hunt for the aircraft involving dozens of planes, ships and heli- copters. It is still unclear what brought the plane down. Images of the debris and a bloated body shown on Indonesian television sent a spasm of anguish through the room at the Surabaya airport where rel- atives awaited news. The first sign of the jet turned up about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from its last known coordinates. Parts of the interior, in- cluding the oxygen tank, were brought to the nearest town, Pangkalan Bun. An- other find included a bright blue plastic suitcase, com- pletely unscratched. "I know the plane has crashed, but I cannot be- lieve my brother and his family are dead," said Ifan Joko, who lost seven rela- tives, three of them chil- dren, as they traveled to Singapore to ring in the new year. "We still pray they are alive." First Adm. Sigit Setiay- anta, commander of the Naval Aviation Center at Surabaya Air Force base, told reporters six corpses were spotted about 160 ki- lometers (100 miles) from Central Kalimantan prov- ince. Rescue workers de- scended on ropes from a hovering helicopter to re- trieve bodies. Efforts were hindered by 2-meter (6- foot) waves and strong winds, National Search and Rescue Director SB Supri- yadi said. The first body was later picked up by a navy ship. Officials said as many as six others followed, but they disagreed about the exact number. Supriyadi was on the aircraft and saw what ap- peared to be more wreck- age under the water, which was clear and a relatively shallow 20 to 30 meters (65 to 100 feet). When TV broadcast an image of a half-naked man floating in the water, a shirt partially covering his head, many of the family mem- bers screamed and wailed uncontrollably. One mid- dle-aged man collapsed and had to be carried out on a stretcher. Their horror was cap- tured by cameras on the other side of windows into the waiting room. Officials blacked out the glass later Tuesday evening. Around 125 family mem- bers were planning to travel Wednesday to Pan- gkalan Bun to start iden- tifying their loved ones. Body bags and coffins have been prepared at hospitals there. Dozens of elite mil- itary divers will join the massive search. They were desperate to search the wa- ter ahead of approaching rough weather. Malaysia-based AirA- sia's loss comes on top of the still-unsolved disap- pearance of Malaysia Air- lines Flight 370 in March with 239 people aboard, and the downing of Ma- laysia Airlines Flight 17 in July over Ukraine, which killed all 298 passengers and crew. Nearly all the passen- gers and crew were Indo- nesians, who are frequent visitors to Singapore, par- ticularly on holidays. Haidar Fauzie, 60, said his youngest child and only daughter, Khairunnisa Haidar, was a flight atten- dant who had worked with AirAsia for two years. On learning about the crash, he struggled to console his grieving wife. They last saw their child six weeks ago, when she returned home on holiday. "From the start, we al- ready knew the risks asso- ciated with being a stew- ardess," Fauzie said. "She is beautiful and smart. It has always been her dream to fly. We couldn't have stopped her." AirAsia group CEO Tony Fernandes, the air- line's founder and public face and a constant pres- ence in Indonesia since the tragedy started un- folding, said he planned to travel to the recovery site on Wednesday. AIRASIA FLIGHT 8501 Wreckageconfirmsjet'sfate DEWINURCAHYANI—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Commander of 1st Indonesian Air Force Operational Command Rear Marshall Dwi Putranto, right, shows airplane parts and a suitcase found floating on the water near the site where AirAsia Flight 8501disappeared, during a press conference at the airbase in Pangkalan Bun, Central Borneo, Indonesia, on Tuesday. ANTONIO CALANNI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Smoke billows from the Italian-flagged Norman Atlantic ferry that caught fire in the Adriatic Sea. By Paolo Santalucia, Llazar Semini and Colleen Barry The Associated Press BRINDISI, ITALY Italian au- thorities warned Tuesday that more bodies will likely befoundwhentheblackened hulkofaGreekferryistowed to Italy, as part of a criminal investigation into the fire that engulfed the ship at sea, killing at least 11 of the more than 400 people on board. Survivors continued to reach shore two days after the accident, amid confusion over the number of missing due to huge discrepancies between the names on the manifest and those rescued. The fire-tinged Norman Atlantic was adrift for a third day off the Albanian coast, where two sailors were killed earlier Tuesday when a tow line attempting to secure it to a tugboat ap- parently snapped, Albanian officials said. The Italian coast guard said another body from the ferry was found Tues- day, bringing the death toll to 11. Three of the victims were Italian truck drivers who worked for the Na- ples-based Eurofish com- pany and had gone to pick up eel shipments in Greece. The company was closed for the day in mourning. More than 400 peo- ple were rescued from the ferry, most in daring, nighttime helicopter sor- ties that persisted despite high winds and seas, after a fire broke out before dawn Sunday on a car deck. Both Italian and Greek authori- ties have announced crim- inal investigations into the cause of the blaze. Italian prosecutors se- cured jurisdiction over the case from Albanian judicial authorities, citing the ship's Italian owner and Italian captain. Bari prosecutor Gi- useppe Volpe, who ordered the ferry back to the Italian port of Brindisi, said it was likely that other bodies will be found in the cargo areas of the ferry once searched, given that there was "in- controvertible" evidence that migrants were stowed away onboard. "Our fear is that unfor- tunately once the wreck is recovered, we'll find other dead people on board," he said. Bari is a key port on the Adriatic coast and is where the judicial investigation will be based because the ferry is from there. Prosecutors order ferry back to Italy CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION By Nataliya Vasilyeva The Associated Press MOSCOW President Vlad- imir Putin's chief political foe was convicted along with his brother on Tues- day in a fraud case widely seen as a political vendetta by the Kremlin, triggering one of Russia's boldest anti- government demonstra- tions in years. Police allowed a few thousand protesters to gather just outside Red Square for about two hours — a show of relative re- straint for Russian author- ities, who have little tol- erance for dissent — be- fore moving in to break up the unsanctioned rally by pushing the demonstrators toward subway entrances. The rally came hours af- ter anti-corruption cam- paigner Alexei Navalny was found guilty of what activ- ists said were trumped-up charges and given a sus- pended sentence of 3½ years. His younger brother was sent to prison, a move that drew comparisons to the Stalin-era practice of punishing family members of enemies of the state. The 38-year old Na- valny, a lawyer and popu- lar blogger, rose to prom- inence with his investiga- tions of official corruption and played a leading role in organizing anti-Putin demonstrations in Moscow in 2011 and 2012 that drew hundreds of thousands. Navalny, who has been under house arrest since February, violated its terms to attend the rally and was rounded up by police as he approached the site. He later tweeted that po- lice drove him home and blocked him from leaving his apartment. The protesters, who gathered on the Manezh Square outside the Krem- lin, chanted: "We are the power!" and "Russia with- out Putin!" Some shouted slogans of support for Ukraine, which saw its Crimean Peninsula an- nexed by Russia in March and has faced a pro-Russia insurgency in the east. Scuffles erupted be- tween the protesters and pro-Putin activists shout- ing, "Those who don't like Russia should go to the United States!" — the chants reflecting the Kremlin's depiction of op- position supporters as Western stooges. FRAUD CASE Co nv ic ti on o f Pu ti n fo e se ts o ff pr ot es t in M os co w By Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS The U.N. Security Council rejected a Palestinian resolution de- manding an end to Israeli occupation within three years late Tuesday, a blow to efforts to get the U.N.'s most powerful body to take action to recognize an inde- pendent state of Palestine. The United States, Isra- el's closest ally, had made clear its opposition to the draft resolution and would have used its veto if nec- essary. But it didn't have to because the resolution failed to get the minimum nine "yes" votes required for adoption by the 15-mem- ber council. The resolution received eight "yes" votes, two "no" votes — one from the United States and the other from Australia — and five absten- tions. Until shortly before the vote, council diplomats had expectedtheresolutiontoget nine "yes" votes. But Nigeria, which had been expected to vote "yes," abstained. The defeated resolution would have affirmed the ur- gent need to achieve "a just, lasting and comprehensive peaceful solution" to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict within 12 months and set a Dec. 31, 2017 deadline for Israel's occupation to end. It also called for an inde- pendent state of Palestine to be established within the 1967 Mideast borders — before Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem — and demanded "a just solution" to all other outstanding issues. U.S. Ambassador Saman- tha Power said: "We voted against this resolution not because we are comfort- able with the status quo. We voted against it because ... peace must come from hard compromises that occur at the negotiating table." 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