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| MH370: Malaysia sends experts to examine Maldives 'debris' | MH370: Malaysia sends experts to examine Maldives 'debris' |
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| Malaysia says it is sending a team of experts to the Maldives to investigate reports that debris from the missing Flight MH370 has washed up there. | Malaysia says it is sending a team of experts to the Maldives to investigate reports that debris from the missing Flight MH370 has washed up there. |
| Images published in a newspaper in the Maldives show several small objects it said had been found on one atoll. | Images published in a newspaper in the Maldives show several small objects it said had been found on one atoll. |
| But Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said it was too soon to say if they were connected to flight MH370. | But Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said it was too soon to say if they were connected to flight MH370. |
| The Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 people veered off its course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014. | The Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 people veered off its course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014. |
| The plane is long believed to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean - though no evidence was initially found despite a massive search operation. | The plane is long believed to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean - though no evidence was initially found despite a massive search operation. |
| The reports in the Maldives come just days after debris found on the remote French Indian Ocean island of Reunion were confirmed to be from the missing plane. | |
| "We will be dispatching a team to the Maldives to view the debris as well as conduct preliminary verification of the debris," Mr Liow said in a statement on Monday. | |
| "Undue speculation will only stress the families and loved ones, anxiously awaiting news on this matter," he added. | |
| Experts have already cast doubt on the find, and a report in the Haveeru newspaper said the captain of a barge that capsized in February believed the debris was from his vessel. | |
| "From the pictures of the debris found on most of the islands, I can almost certainly say that they are from the cargo we were carrying," Capt Abdulla Rasheed told the paper. | |
| Meanwhile, the French authorities are continuing their search for debris around Reunion Island after part of the wing of the Malaysia Airlines jet was found last month. | |
| Tests are still being carried out on that debris but Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said last week that experts had "conclusively confirmed" it was from MH370. | |
| Simulation of where debris in search area could end up |