Kuta (Antara Bali) - Eight passengers of a Lion Air jet that crashed upon landing at Bali's Ngurah Rai airport on Saturday are still being treated at several hospitals on the island.

"We help monitor their condition," the head of insurance company PT Jasa Raharja's Bali branch's service sub-department, Thamrin Silalahi, said at Kasih Ibu hospital in Jimbaran, Badung, here on Sunday.

He said two passengers are treated at the hospital namely Irawati (62) for a broken nose and Siti Susilawati (27) for a broken neck. The two passengers hail from Bandung, West Java, he added.

Three Lion Air staff members were seen also monitoring the patients. One passengers meanwhile is now treated at Surya Husada hospital in Denpasar,  three in Kasih Ibu hospital on Jalan Teuku Umar  and two others in Kasih Ibu hospital in Tabanan.

Two passengers who were treated at BIMC have been allowed to go home, he added.

He told that the insurance company would pay maximally Rp25 million for the hospital treatment of the patients.

reporting by Dewa Sudiarta Wiguna

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