The world was shocked in when a series of plane crashes left many crushed over the loss of their loved ones. But in a simple twist if fate,13-year-old Bahia Bakari, was the lone survivor of Yemenia Airlines flight 626 crash.

For the first time she spoke about that horrific day and recalled sitting next to her mother moments before the crash.

"I looked out the porthole and the plane started to shake. They didn't tell us there was going to be a crash," Bahia recalls.

Bakari and her mother took off in Paris and swapped planes in Yemeu, a 19-year-old Airbus 310, destined for the small African nations of Comoros. During the night hours of the flight, the plane went down over the Indian Ocean.

"I felt the water around me. I found myself in the ocean. I don't know how it happened, I didn't see my mother."

Unable to swim, Bakari clung from the plane debris in shark-infested waters.

"I heard women crying near me, others were alive in the water but I couldn't see them. I was too far away."

"The voices soon faded. Eight hours later small fishing boat spotted the little girl. Her only injuries were a few bruises and a broken collar bone."

The lone survivor was flown back to Paris an transported to an airport to be reunited with her father were they broke the horrific news.

"A psychologist came to see me and said, 'I don't think your mother is coming.' I was the only one alive. Then I understood."

About 1,000 South African soldiers tried to enter presidential grounds in South Africa's capital city,Johannesburg, an incident that quickly turned violent.

Up to 1,200 soldiers marched on the lawns of the Union Buildings, with hundreds scaling the gates of the compound, the news agency said. Police resorted to tear gas and rubber bullets when the soldiers refused to leave, and both sides sustained injuries.

The South African National Defence Union, which is not recognised by the government as an official union, was demanding 30 percent salary increases, which Minister of Defence Lindiwe Sisulu called "deliberately provocative".

Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa, in a statement, "strongly condemned" the violence.
"The illegal march, which was supposedly to be peaceful, deteriorated into chaos as scores of SANDF [South African National Defence Force] members were seen causing havoc.

"While members of the SANDF had the right of freedom of assembly and to protest, there can be no justification for their behaviour, which negated their status as the defenders of the nation," said Mthethwa.

Police used water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse about 1 000 soldiers who staged an illegal march on the Union Buildings, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.

Soldiers tried to climb the fence surrounding the main government complex in Pretoria, after a court refused their application to stage a march to demand better salaries.

Mthethwa told reporters that two soldiers had been arrested and handed over to military police.