DAWEI, Myanmar: Myanmar search and rescue teams were pulling dead bodies from the sea off the country’s southern coast Thursday after a military plane crashed with more than 120 people on board.

The commander-in-chief’s office said 10 corpses, including five children and four women, had been retrieved so far from the Andaman Sea near where the plane went down on Wednesday in the waters off Launglon, near the town of Dawei.

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