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Article: CRASH PROBERS FIND ZIA'S BODY.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 18, 1988
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Byline: Associated Press
Air force teams today recovered the bodies of President Mohammed Zia ul- Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel from the charred wreckage of Zia's military plane.
The remains of the U.S.-built C-130 transport lay strewn across a sandy plain near the Indian border in Punjab province. The plane exploded Wednesday after taking off from a nearby airport.
Soldiers slid the flag-draped coffins of Zia, Raphel and 28 others onto planes bound for Islamabad and other Pakistani cities where relatives of the victims were waiting. The government originally put the death toll at 37.
Most of the wreckage lay in a 100- yard ...