A handout picture from the Brazilian Air Force shows pieces of debris from the crashed Air France Airbus A330 picked out by Brazilian Navy sailors from the Atlantic Ocean, some 745 miles (1,200 km) northeast of Recife. (Xinhua/Brazilian Air Force/Handout)

A total of 15 bodies were found Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean near the site where an Air France jetliner was believed to have crashed a week ago, bringing the number of bodies retrieved to 17, Brazilian military officials said.

Fifteen more bodies were found in a sea area some 1,150 km off Brazil's northeastern coast city Recife, Air Force spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Henry Munhoz told reporters in Recife.

Munhoz said dozens of components of the crashed airliner were also found, but noted that the focus of the rescue team currently was to recover bodies.

Brazilian air force spokesman Henry Nunhoz shows the map where the corpses of some of the victims of the Air France flight were found, during a press conference in Recife, Brazil, June 7, 2009. (Xinhua/Brazil News Agency)

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