3 more bodies found from Air France crash site: Brazil

Brazilian search teams on Sunday recovered three more bodies from an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week and were working in bad weather to grab others spotted, military officials said.

The finds follow the recovery on Satruday of the first two bodies from the disaster, which occurred early June 1 as Air France flight AF 447 was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

"Three other bodies were localised this morning and are being transferred to the frigate Constitution," a spokesman for Brazil's air force, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Munhoz, told reporters in Recife, Brazil.

The sex of the three bodies recovered could not be determined, he said, suggesting how bad a condition they were in after a week in the water.

"Other bodies are being spotted by the ships" scouring the area, 1,000 kilometers off Brazil's northeast coast, Munhoz said, adding they should be recovered in the next few hours.

He did not say how many bodies had been sighted.

The operations at sea were being carried out in "unfavourable" weather, the spokesman said.

Munhoz said the discovery of the bodies, along with the recovery of several Air France seats and, on Saturday, a briefcase with an Air France ticket and a backpack, confirmed the search teams were at or near the spot the plane came down.