All 54 people on board a Trigana Air aircraft were killed in a crash two days ago, in Indonesia’s Papua province, officials said.

Treacherous terrain in Indonesia’s Papua province hampered rescuers’ efforts to reach a passenger plane yesterday that crashed with 54 aboard, the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the sprawling southeast Asian archipelago.

An aircraft with 54 people on board crashed in Indonesia’s remote and mountainous region of Papua yesterday, a government official said.