Malaysia’s acting transport minister read out the news as he was handed it during his daily briefing.
The new image is from 18 March, two days after initial satellite pictures of possible debris, and shows an object 22m by 13m, 120km from the first site.
Flight MH370 disappeared on 8 March carrying 239 people.Malaysian officials suspect the plane, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, was deliberately taken off course.Angry relatives Malaysia’s Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein broke off the question-and-answer segment of his briefing in Kuala Lumpur to say: “The news that I just received is that the Chinese ambassador received satellite image of floating objects in the southern corridor
and they will be sending ships to verify.”He added: “Beijing is expected to make an announcement in a few hours.” -BBC
