"Four… hundred sixty-nine."
"..."
"..."
"Can they… even identify half of these bodies?"
With the number of students reaching almost 5000 including the ones from the other countries, all the debris and mangled parts of the plane were quickly cleared out even before the sun went down. The students were all initially tormented and weakened by what happened; not even daring to touch the debris as there could be a body buried beneath it.
But after a few hours, some of them were even carrying the charred bodies of those who died. The expressions of the students were still grim, but the anger and resolution burning in their eyes were enough to wash away any signs of weakness they had.
469 bodies. The students and the numerous staff of the Academy have lined up 469 bodies-- and those were the ones that were still… salvageable. According to the media outlets that were now reporting the news, there should be a total of 942 passengers on the 7 planes that crashed.
