A Yemeni airliner with 150 people on board has crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago.

"We don’t know if there are any survivors," Comoros vice-president Idi Nadhoim told Reuters news agency.

The Airbus 310 was operated by the Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air. The details of the flight are not known.

However reports say there was a flight from Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, due about 0230 (0030 BST). That flight was a connecting flight from Paris.

The three islands of Comoros are about 300km (190 miles) northwest of Madagascar in the Mozambique channel.

The exact location of the crash was not immediately known.

But a civil aviation official told the BBC that the plane was probably a few kilometres from the airport in the capital, Moroni, when it crashed.

Weather conditions had not been good for several days, he added.

A resident near the airport told the BBC about 100 people were trying to get into the airport to find out more information, but without much success.

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.

The cause of that crash has not been identified.