Budapest: Forty-two Slovak soldiers died when the military plane they were travelling in crashed in northeastern Hungary, Hungary's interior ministry said, revising its previous death toll of 44.
The ministry said it revised the toll from Thursday's crash after receiving the official passenger list from Slovak authorities.
"There are 42 dead and a sole survivor," Tibor Dobson, who heads the interior ministry's disaster prevention unit, said.
Dobson said there were 43 people on the plane - and not 45 as Hungarian authorities had earlier reported.
He said body parts of the victims were scattered at the crash site, making it difficult to count and identify the dead.
Police had earlier said 44 people had died, a figure based on an unofficial passenger list which had 45 names on it.
The AN-24 military plane, which was en route from Kosovo to Slovakia carrying Slovak peacekeeping troops, burst into flames at the crash site near Telkibanya, close to the border with Slovakia.
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