Beijing: A Malaysian newspaper, The Star, is reporting that one of the people who used a stolen passport to board the plane has been identified.
The paper quotes Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, inspector general of police.
The Malaysian police declined to divulge the nationality of the man, but ruled out a link to a terror attack in Kunming nine days ago.
Those attackers were ethnic Uighurs, from the Xinjiang region of Western China. The man using the stolen passport, he said, was not from Xinjiang.
He added that they have yet to classify the missing plane as linked to terrorism.
"Let us investigate the matter thoroughly," he said urging the public not to speculate further on the matter.
10/03/14 Harriet Alexander, Malcolm Moore/The Telegraph, UK
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The paper quotes Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, inspector general of police.
The Malaysian police declined to divulge the nationality of the man, but ruled out a link to a terror attack in Kunming nine days ago.
Those attackers were ethnic Uighurs, from the Xinjiang region of Western China. The man using the stolen passport, he said, was not from Xinjiang.
He added that they have yet to classify the missing plane as linked to terrorism.
"Let us investigate the matter thoroughly," he said urging the public not to speculate further on the matter.
10/03/14 Harriet Alexander, Malcolm Moore/The Telegraph, UK
