The sole survivor of a Yemeni jet that crashed into the Indian Ocean has been reunited with her father back in France. Bahia Bakari clung on to floating debris for more than 12 hours before search teams spotted her struggling in rough seas near the archipelago of Comoros.
Rescuers have failed to find any of the remaining 152 passengers and crew since the Yemenia Airbus 310 jet crashed in rough weather on Tuesday. Bahia, thought to be between 12 and 14 years old, spent a day recovering in hospital in the capital of Comoros, Moroni, before heading home. "I took her in my arms and I embraced her, but not too strongly because her collarbone is injured," her father Kassim Bakari said.
He said he asked her: "'How are you? Was the return trip OK?'... We joked a little, the two of us." He revealed he was "torn between relief and sadness" because he had been reunited with his daughter but his wife "did not come back". Mr Bakari said that his daughter was not wearing a life jacket during the ordeal and could not swim.When rescuers found her in the dark she was amid a sea of bodies, clinging to a piece of debris and surrounded by a fuel slick, and was too weak to react.
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