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Wed 07 Jul 2009Over 150 feared dead in air disaster
IT WAS as if lightning struck France twice in the same month in the form of an air disaster.
One hundred and fifty-two people are feared dead, including 66 French citizens, after an Airbus 310 belonging to Yemenia Airways crashed on its approach to Grand Comore Island during the early hours of yesterday, just 29 days after 228 people perished on an Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
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