TARAKAN: Indonesian rescuers were set on Sunday to fly into the jungles of Borneo to evacuate the bodies of 13 people killed when an army helicopter crashed and burst into flames a day earlier.

Six people were also injured when the aircraft, carrying construction workers to build a military outpost, smashed into a cliff as it attempted to land at the remote site near the Malaysian border.

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