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MISSING MH370: IGP denies Daily Mail report
By Atiqa Hazellah |
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KUALA LUMPUR: Police have refuted an online version of a British tabloid report that MH 370 flight Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had received a call from a mystery woman before take-off.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar described the report as “mere speculation”.
He added that investigations were ongoing and confidential.
“If the portal can provide the caller’s number, that will help. If not, as I said, it is a mere speculation,” he said in a short messaging message (SMS) to the New Straits Times.
Khalid was responding to a Daily Mail report saying Zaharie had received a two-minute call before take-off from a mystery woman using a mobile phone number obtained under a false identity.
The call was said to be one of the last calls made to Zaharie in the hours before the Boeing 777-200 ER left Kuala Lumpur on March 8.
It also stated that police had traced the number to a shop selling prepaid SIM cards in Kuala Lumpur.
However, police discovered it had been bought recently by someone who used a false identity, the report said.