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Searchers have found 12 bodies at the site of a Russian plane crash on an Indonesian volcano. The jet had been carrying 45; all are believed dead, the AP reports. The steep mountainside has proved a challenge to searchers, who climbed through a jungle toward the plane's wreckage using ropes. Rescuers are clearing trees in order to make room for helicopters to land; choppers haven't been able to retrieve the bodies thanks to a blanket of fog and the jagged, near-vertical slopes.
