French investigators have ended their search for bodies in the Alps where a Germanwings passenger jet crashed last month, killing all 150 people on board, a local official said on Saturday, reports The Telegraph.
According to black box findings, German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew the Airbus A320 jet into the mountainside during a flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, pulverising the aircraft and making recovery efforts extremely complicated.
"The search for bodies is over, but the search for the victims' personal belongings is continuing," a spokesman for the local government authority in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region told Reuters.
The identification of victims will now continue through the analysis of 150 sets of DNA found at the site, which could take several weeks. The prosecutor leading the French legal probe has cautioned that the number of DNA sets does not necessarily mean all the victims have been found.
Loved ones of victims in the crash that killed all 150 people aboard arrived at a memorial near the disaster site to honour the dead on Saturday.