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Malaysian team to examine debris found in the Maldives

Source: AP | August 11, 2015, Tuesday |

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MALAYSIA’S government said yesterday that debris had been found in the Maldives and it was sending a team to the Indian Ocean island nation to determine whether it came from a plane.

Last week, Malaysia said a wing fragment found on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion was confirmed to be from the Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing last year.

The Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8 last year with 239 people, most of them Chinese, one board while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

A search is continuing on Reunion. Local municipal workers combed the island’s eastern shore yesterday, filling bags with whatever they found — old cloth, part of a tire, plastic bottles and other objects they found washed up on the rocks and sand.

Malaysia’s Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said it was premature to speculate whether the debris found in the Maldives is connected to flight MH370.

He didn’t give details on what kind of debris was found. Media reports in the Maldives indicate the debris was found in recent weeks and came to authorities’ attention after the discovery on Reunion.

“I urge all parties to allow for the verification process to take its due course. Undue speculation will only stress the families and loved ones, anxiously awaiting news on this matter,” Liow said in a statement.

The plane was believed to have crashed in the remote southern Indian Ocean but no trace had been found until a barnacle-crusted object was discovered two weeks ago on French-held Reunion. Authorities are certain the fragment is from a Boeing 777 component known as a flaperon, but the French have yet to positively identify it as a piece of flight MH370.

Malaysia has since sought help from other territories to look for other possible debris, and France also deployed a plane, helicopters and boats around Reunion Island to search the waters.

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Malaysian team to examine debris found in the Maldives

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