Philippine military transport plane crash kills 50

Personal belongings from victims are retrieved at the crash site (Joint Task Force-Sulu/AP)

Philippine troops have found the final five bodies after a transport aircraft crashed in the south, raising the death toll to 50 in the country’s worst military air disaster.

The Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft was carrying 96 mostly combat troops when it overshot the runway while landing on Sunday at the Jolo airport in Sulu province, military officials said.