TEMPO.CO, Surabaya - The police’s Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team said it was facing difficulties in identifying four bodies of AirAsia QZ8501 victims stored at Bhayangkara Hospital. The remains comprise three relatively-intact bodies and a body part.

The team said the bodies had been discovered for quite a while—along with the other 99 bodies, consisting of 96 intact bodies and three body parts—but it was still grappling with the identification process.

“In the AirAsia tragedy we assume that there are only two possibilities: the four are AirAsia victims, or missing persons non-related to the AirAsia accident,” East Java Police DVI Team head Sr. Comr. Budiyon said on Wednesday, March 4, 2015.

Budiyono said the team would wait until next week to confirm as to which possibilities the bodies fell into—i.e. when the National Police headquarters would send them the results of the DNA data analysis.

Separately, AirAsia Indonesia president director Sunu Widyatmoko said the process of insurance claims for the victims’ families would proceed despite the possible halt of the identification process as rescue operations by Search and Rescue Agency (SAR) had been brought to a close.

MOHAMMAD SYARRAFAH