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The Latest on Indonesia: 2 sisters among plane victims

An investigator walks past the wreckage of the crashed air force transport plane in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. The Hercules C-130 plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in the country's third-largest city on June 30. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
An investigator walks past the wreckage of the crashed air force transport plane in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. The Hercules C-130 plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in the country's third-largest city on June 30. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) An investigator walks past the wreckage of the crashed air force transport plane in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. The Hercules C-130 plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in the country's third-largest city on June 30. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) – The latest on the Indonesian military plane crash (all times local):

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2:15 p.m.

Among the 122 people aboard Indonesia’s C-130 military transport plane that crashed into a residential neighborhood were two sisters, their bodies locked in an embrace.

A group of students from a Catholic high school in Medan screamed hysterically when a body bag was opened, revealing the badly bruised corpse of classmate Esther Lina Josephine, 17, clasping her 14-year-old sister.