[30/November/2009]

SANA'A, Nov. 30 (Saba) – The bodies of eight of the crew members of the Yemenia airplane that plunged into the Indian Ocean on June 30 are to arrive in Yemen on Tuesday.

The bodies are to be flown from the Comorian capital of Moroni, accompanied by the relatives of the dead and Yemenia Airways officials.

They would be buried where their families want to, likely every one will be laid to rest in homeland.

The bodies are of members from Yemen, Ethiopia and Morocco.

In Yemen, respects for the victims and their families would be offered in Sana'a and Aden on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The two cities had own victims in the disaster that killed 152 passengers and crew members off Comoros.

The bodies were identified as crew members after the DNA tests performed in France and Britain.

The bodies of the rest crew members, a Yemeni engineer and two hostesses from Indonesia and Malaysia are still missing.

Funerals were held in Comoros Sunday for other victims from the crash.

About 54 bodies were handed to their families who arrived in the capital of Moroni on Saturday to lay them to rest.

Comorian President Ahmed Abdullah Sambi topped the attendants at the burials and a delegation representing the Yemenia Airways took part.

Whatever the cause of the June 30 crash that killed 152, the incident remains an act of God, Sambi said during the eulogy.

On Saturday, a Yemenia jetliner carried 203 families to Moroni for the burials of their relatives who died in the crash off Comoros.

The only survivor from the tragedy was a 14-year-old French teenager.

The Yemenia has compensated the families of the victims, 20.000 euros each.

FR
Saba