[Al Arabiya Latest] 14-year-old girl who survived the Yemenia airline crash Tuesday is being treated in a hospital in the Comoros where she is in a state that is "not worrisome", a Comoros Red Cross spokesman told AFP."The young girl, aged 14, has arrived at the El Maarouf hospital. We were told that her condition is not worrisome," said Red Cross spokeswoman Ramulati Ben Ali.
A man identified as one of the girl's rescuers told France's Europe 1 radio that the teenager was seen swimming in choppy waters in the middle of bodies and plane debris around 4:20 am (0120 GMT). "We tried to throw a life buoy. She could not grab it. I had to jump in the water to get her," the rescuer said. "She was shaking, shaking. We put four covers on her. We gave her hot, sugary water. We simply asked her name, village."
Yemeni Transport Minister Khaled al-Wazir had said that a five-year-old boy among the 142 passengers and 11 crew on Flight IY 626 had been rescued alive. Arfachad Salim, a rescue coordinator for the Comoros Red Crescent, had said the child was brought ashore. However a Comoran government spokesman confirmed that the teenage girl is the only survivor so far and that she is from the southeast village of Nioumadzaha. "She is conscious, she is speaking, but we are trying to warm her" after being pulled from cold sea waters, said Ada Mansour, the examining doctor at the hospital where the girl is being treated.
Mansour added that earlier reports of a five-year-old boy surviving the crash were "based on information received from boats near the search site. But I have not seen him."