Comoros crash search called off

DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzanian and French rescuers are to call off the search for more bodies from a Yemeni aircraft that crashed …

DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzanian and French rescuers are to call off the search for more bodies from a Yemeni aircraft that crashed off Comoros after having removed 24 corpses from the water, an official said yesterday.

A lone Franco-Comoran girl out of 153 people on board survived when a Yemeni Airbus 310-300 plunged into the Indian ocean in bad weather off the Comoros archipelago in June. – (Reuters)

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