Five police officers stayed overnight amid the debris at the Germanwings crash site to protect it from souvenir hunters, journalists and wolves.
Authorities have strengthened the security cordon at the scene in the French Alps, which is near a popular ski resort and mountain roads, L'Express reported.
There are fears that curious members of the public and press may disturb the investigation and that two wolf packs known to live in the area could be attracted to victims’ bodies.
“The aircraft was pulverised,” one rescue worker said last night. “Even the bodies are unrecognisable.”
Hundreds of police and dozens of helicopters descended on the mountains at first light today for a second day of work to recover passengers and debris.
Rescue workers have begun extracting bodies from the French Alps crash site of doomed Germanwings Airbus A320, it has been revealed.
Helicopters operating around the crash zone have begun the process of airlifting the remains of the 150 victims involved in the air disaster - in which there were no survivors.
The mountainous crash site - based at 1,500 metres altitude - can only be reached by helicopter, or a significant hike.
The body retrieval operation began this afternoon, but has since been called off for the night, according to a source close to the scene.
Flight 4U9525 was less than an hour from its destination of Dusseldorf on its journey from Barcelona when it unexpectedly went into a descent for up to 18 minutes yesterday morning.
The pilots did not send out a distress call and had lost radio contact with their control centre at around 10.50am local time (9.50am GMT), France's aviation authority said.
Thursday 26 March 2015
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