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Update 07:53 Rescuers searching among the debris of the doomed Yemenia Airbus pulled a 14-year-old girl from the sea alive 30 June. Her father, in Paris, has spoken to her on the phone, reports AP (Fre) and says she felt nothing, but was ejected and found herself in the water next to the plane. She spent 12 hours in the water and is being treated for hypothermia. Her father describes her as extremely shy, fragile, and says she barely knows how to swim.

The aircraft crashed 30 June on a flight from Yemen to Comoros in the Indian Ocean with 153 people on board. Earlier reports mistakenly said a five year-old boy had been rescued. The girl was taken to hospital suffering from hypothermia after having spent several hours in choppy waters. The plane was making a landing approach at Moroni, Comoros for the second time when it went down. The airline has said that 66 French nationals were on board. BBC, CNN, Le Monde (Fre)