8 bodies of Yemenia plane crash found on shore

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Nairobi - Eight bodies that have washed ashore in Tanzania may be from a plane that plunged into the Indian Ocean with 153 people onboard, Yemeni authorities said. Only one 12-year-old girl survived the crash.The Yemeni committee overseeing the investigation of last week’s Yemenia 626 crash said in a statement on Tuesday that search and rescue teams in Comoros received a report from Tanzanian authorities informing them that bodies of the victims of the crash and some wreckage were located off the shores of Tanzania, some 370 miles (595 kilometres) away from Comoros.

The committee did not say how the bodies had been identified, give details about the debris or elaborate further. There have previously been several false reports about the recovery of bodies and of survivors.Officials say they hope locating the plane’s black boxes will assist them to find the remains of the plane and passengers. The search has been narrowed down to an area 1 000 feet (300 meters) in diameter, said Ali Abou Abasse, a senior Comoran police officer co-ordinating the search and rescue site at the coastal town of Mistamiouli.

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