A Pakistani passenger plane crashed in heavy rain near Islamabad on Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board, officials said, in the worst aviation accident in Pakistan.
The Airbus 321, belonging to a private airline crashed into a heavily wooded and hard-to-access hillside while flying from the southern port city of Karachi.
Federal Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said 115 bodies had been recovered so far but bad weather and difficult terrain above the city had hampered search efforts.
"Unfortunately, no one survived ... Many bodies are not in good shape," Kaira told a india news conference.
Twelve bodies had been identified so far, but "the crash was very terrible. There was fire. It's difficult to recognise the bodies". Passengers' remains were badly damaged in the crash and DNA tests would be used to identify the victims, he said. Two Americans were among the victims, a U.S. embassy spokesman told Reuters. He had no further details.