Five-year-old child survives Comoros crash

MORONI, June 30 (Reuters) - A five-year-old child was plucked alive from the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros after an Airbus A310-300 (EAD.PA) crashed with 153 people on board on Tuesday, officials said.

"A doctor from the military hospital aboard one of the rescue boats called the Mitsamiouli hospital to tell them a child had been rescued alive," Halidi Ahmed Abdou, a doctor at a medical centre opened for survivors, told Reuters.

Hadji Madi Ali, director of the international airport in Moroni, told national radio the child was five years old. He said five bodies had also been found. (Reporting by Ahmed Ali Amir; Editing by David Clarke and Louise Ireland)