The searchers drove as far as they could into the swamp and then set out on foot, crawling over soggy earth until they found signs of so many lost lives. A white tennis shoe. A black purse of braided leather. A length of orange and blue cloth that a woman might have worn as a skirt.
Recovery teams tried and failed to pump water away from an airliner that crashed in a Central African swamp, then pressed ahead with their job of finding bodies in the wreckage. Rain complicated the operation just 5km from the end of the runway where the aircraft took off on Saturday on a flight from Douala to Nairobi.
Rescuers began the grisly task of removing bodies from the wreckage of a Kenyan Airways plane lying in swamps of south-west Cameroon on Monday after a crash that killed all 114 people on board. It took 36 hours to find the wreckage of the almost new aircraft 20km south-west of Douala.