Background checks on the 154 Chinese citizens aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, including a Uighur passenger from the northwestern region of Xinjiang, had not turned up any evidence of their possible involvement in a hijack attempt, China has said.
The announcement by Huang Huikang, Beijing’s ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, reported by China Central Television on Tuesday, came as Malaysia confirmed it had asked “every relevant country” in the search area that has access to satellite data to provide what information they could.
The search area now covers 2.5m square nautical miles, equivalent to two-thirds of the land mass of the US.
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