Not true, says Manila on claims of MH370 wreckage


  • Nation
  • Monday, 12 Oct 2015

A file photo dated 29 July 2015 showing officers carrying a flaperon from an aircraft apparently washed ashore in Saint-Andre de la Reunion, eastern La Reunion island, France. - EPA

KOTA KINABALU: Manila has dismissed claims that the wreckage of the missing MH370 was on one of its islands in the southern Philippines. 

Captain Giovanni Carlo Bacordo, commander of Naval Task Force 61 said that they had deployed a gunboat to investigate the claims of a man about the sightings of the wreckage believed to be that of MH370. 

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