Tanzania ‘finds Comoros victims’

Debris and bodies thought to be from the plane that crashed off Comoros in the Indian Ocean last week have washed up on a Tanzanian island, police say.

A regional police commander said crash investigators in the Comoros had been informed of the find.
Security forces have been deployed to Mafia Island, several hundred miles north-west of the Comoros, to search for more bodies. The plane came down in bad weather with 153 people on board on 30 June.

A 12-year-old girl – Baya Bakari – was the only known survivor. She was found clinging to debris some two hours after the crash.

Many of the passengers were travelling to the Comoros but had begun their journey in Paris or Marseille on another jet operated by Yemenia, the national airline of Yemen, before boarding flight IY626 in Sanaa. Officials on Mafia Island said the bodies began washing ashore on Tuesday.

BBC.