MH370 search: New 'metallic debris' found

August 02, 2015 18:01

Several pieces of "metallic debris" have been found on La Reunion island, where a Boeing 777 wing part believed to belong to missing flight MH370 washed up last week, AFP reports.

An AFP photographer saw police collect one piece of debris, measuring about 15 square inches, on the north of the island this morning. Police placed the debris -- which has a sort of handle partially covered by leather and is inscribed with two ideograms -- in an iron case.

Also this morning a man handed police a piece of debris measuring 27 inches, guessing it was part of a plane door. The discovery of a piece of wreckage confirmed to come from a Boeing 777 last Wednesday sparked fevered speculation that it may be the first tangible evidence that the missing plane crashed into the Indian Ocean, the report said.

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