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[Published: Friday July 03 2009]

Air crash survivor back in France

Paris, 03 July-(ANA)-The only known survivor of the Yemenia flight which crashed into the Indian Ocean has arrived back in Paris on a French government plane.

The 12-year-old girl, Baya Bakari, was found clinging to wreckage in the sea, hours after the crash.

The plane, going to the Comoros from Yemen's capital, Sanaa, came down in bad weather with 153 people on board.

Yemenia has halted all flights in and out of Marseille in France, where many crash victims began their journey.

Baya Bakari had been treated in hospital in the Comoros Islands for injuries thought to include a broken collar bone and burns.

She was accompanied on the journey back to France by medical staff and France's Minister for Co-operation Alain Joyandet, who had flown to the Comoros after the crash.

On arrival at Bourget airport, she was taken by ambulance to a Paris hospital for further treatment. (ANA)

FA/ANA/03 July 2009---


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