Mitsamiouli
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thumb|right|175px|Location of Mitsamihuli on the island of Grande Comore thumb|right|300px|A street in Mitsamiouli Mitsamiouli (population 6,100) is a town on the northwest coast of Grande Comore in the Comoros.
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- Locality
- Mitsamiouli
- Region
- Ngazidja القمر الكبرى
- Country
- Comores Komori جزر القمر
- Population
- 4,811
- Timezone
- Indian/Comoro
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thumb|right|175px|Location of Mitsamihuli on the island of Grande Comore thumb|right|300px|A street in Mitsamiouli Mitsamiouli (population 6,100) is a town on the northwest coast of Grande Comore in the Comoros.
==History== On 23 November 1996, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 made a crash-landing in the shallow waters offshore from Le Galawa Beach Hotel in Mitsamiouli. Of the 175 passengers, 125 died, despite rescue attempts by island residents and tourists.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mitsamiouli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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