MH370: Search on Reunion island to end Monday


French maritime gendarmes look at a map indicating measures being undertaken in the search for wreckage from the missing MH370 plane at the marina of Saint-Marie on the French island of La Reunion on Aug 14, 2015 - AFP

SAINTE-MARIE (France): Active air and sea searches for fragments of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 off Reunion island will stop on Monday after just over a week, the local authorities said. 

Local official Dominique Sorain said that if no objects were found by next Monday “we will move to a phase of heightened surveillance”. 

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