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Search to end for more bodies from Comoros crash
15 Jul 2009 14:46:19 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Twenty-four of 152 dead recovered from Indian Ocean

* Comorans plan protest on Thursday

By George Obulutsa

DAR ES SALAAM, July 15 (Reuters) - Tanzanian and French rescuers will call off the search for more bodies from a Yemeni plane that crashed off Comoros after pulling out 24 corpses from the waters, an official said on Wednesday.

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.

Corpses and wreckage have washed up hundreds of miles from the crash site.

"Yesterday we recovered two more bodies, one man and one woman ... They are in our mortuary waiting to be picked up by air (to Dar es Salaam). The bodies found to date are 24," Mafia District Commissioner Manzie Mangochie told Reuters.

"Given the current conditions and the way the winds have subsided, I don't think we can expect more bodies. We will make arrangements to demobilise our search teams because we are right at the end of this exercise," Mangochie said.

State-controlled Yemenia airline said the plane had 75 Comoran passengers on board, along with 65 French nationals, one Palestinian and one Canadian. The crew comprised six Yemenis, two Moroccans, one Indonesian, one Ethiopian and a Filipina.

The crash -- whose cause remains unknown -- has aroused anger among Comorans living in France. Yemen's aviation authority has said its aircraft are well-maintained.

In Comoros, some of the relatives and friends of those who died in the crash said they planned to protest on Thursday over conditions on flights between Paris and Moroni.

"We're exhausted and want this to end," said Hamida Dahalani, who lost six family members. (Additional reporting by Ahmed Ali Amir in Moroni; Editing by Jack Kimball and Richard Balmforth)


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