Terror unlikely behind missing Malaysian airliner: Interpol chief

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Paris , 11 Mar 2014

The international police agency Interpol does not believe the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane over the weekend was the result of a terrorist attack, its chief said Tuesday."The more information we get, the more we are inclined to conclude it was not a terrorist incident," said Lyon-based Interpol chief Ronald K. Noble, Xinhua reported citing local media.According to earlier reports, two passengers had used stolen or lost European passports to board the plane. Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 with 239 people on board vanished without a trace about an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur early Saturday. The Boeing 777-200ER was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast into the South China Sea.The plane took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12.41 a.m. Saturday and was due to land in Beijing at 6.30 a.m. the same day. The 227 passengers on the flight included five Indians, 154 Chinese and 38 Malaysians.