on board. The Identity of the child still need to be found out.

The Yemenia Airbus 310 flight IY626 was flying from the Yemeni capital Sanaa, and the plane was due in the Comoros capital Moroni at about 0230 (2230GMT on Monday). Most of the passengers had travelled to Sanaa from Paris or Marseille on a different aircraft.

The flight on to Moroni, on the island of Njazidja (Grande Comore), was also thought to have made a stop in Djibouti.

There were more than 150 people on board, including three babies and 11 crew

and most of the passengers on board were from France with in a month this is second tragedy involving people from France. On 1 June an Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris plunged into the Atlantic, killing all 228 people on board.