Sana'a, Yemen - Relatives of the crew of the Yemen Airways jet that crashed off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros last week marched to the French embassy in Sana'a Wednesday to protest against the "slow" pace of the search operation led by French teams. Yemenia flight IY626 plunged into the ocean on the last, Sana'a- Moroni leg of its flight from Paris after failing in its first attempt at landing at Moroni in windy weather. Most of the passengers were Comorans living in France.
Of the 153 people on board, only a 12-year-old French girl of Comoran origin survived. She was found clinging to wreckage several hours later.
Protesters, who also included pilots and hostesses held up pictures of the 11 crew members of the ill-fated flight IY 626.
They chanted: "Where the black box, Sarkozy?" and "We also have victims, Sarkozy!"
In a message handed to embassy officials, the protesters denouncing the "slow" investigations into the crash and the search operation.
"We express our strong condemnation to the way the French search team reacted to the plane crash," the message read.
It said the search teams "do not have sincere willingness in the search for the victims."
The government of the Comoros islands said Wednesday that Tanzanian authorities had alerted it to the discovery of a number of bodies in Tanzanian waters.
"The foreign affairs ministry in Dar es Salaam informed us that they found around 10 bodies," Kamaliddine Afraitane, spokesman for the Comoran government in Moroni told the German Press Agency dpa.
The bodies had been recovered in the Indian Ocean off an island near the semi-autonomous Tanzanian islands of Zanzibar, Afraitane said.
Tanzanian media reported that eight bodies were fished from the water in islets close to Mafia Island, one of three Tanzanian "Spice Islands" south of Zanzibar.
If identified as victims of the June 31 Airbus A310 crash off Grande Comore island, they would be the first bodies to be found. A nearly-week-long search of the waters surrounding the suspected crash site has so far yielded none.
