Relatives Pay Respects to Sailors Who Died in Sinking of Indonesian Submarine

Relatives of the sailors who died in the sinking of a German-made KRI Nanggala-402 submarine grieved their lost loved ones on the shore of Bali Monday and urged authorities to recover their bodies, according to Reuters reports.

The Indonesian navy began working out how to salvage the remains of the submarine and retrieve the bodies of the 53 sailors, whom the military officially declared dead Sunday, according to The Associated Press. "We have already given our son to the government. Now that he has fallen in this operation, we hope the government will return his remains to us after all the official ceremonies," Wayan Darmanta, an uncle of one of the crew members, was quoted as saying in a Reuters report. Indonesian President Joko Widodo earlier gave his condolences to the families of the crew members of the Nanggala-402. Widodo also said the government would pay for the education of the crew members’ children, according to Reuters.