Published: 2015-06-30 10:12:55

The death toll in this morning's crash of a military transport plane in Medan, Indonesia, has risen to 70, according to an Indonesian Red Cross official.

In a report carried on CNN, Air Marshal Agus Supriatna told reporters that at least 49 bodies had been recovered. Twenty-three of the bodies had been identified, he said.

Supriatna said the C-130 Hercules took off from Jakarta's Halim Perdanakusuma Airport with about 113 people on board, but it's not clear how many people were on the plane when it crashed. It made two stops along the way -- in Pekanbaru and Dumai.

Smoke rose among scorched buildings in Medan after the plane crashed near a residential neighborhood.