No Bangladeshi on missing flight

The Foreign Ministry has confirmed that there was no Bangladeshi onboard the Malaysian flight to Beijing that went missing, presumed crashed, on Saturday.

Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur informed Dhaka there was no Bangladeshi onboard, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Md Shameem Ahsan told bdnews24.com.

A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew went missing over the South China Sea on Saturday. The flight is presumed crashed, as ships and planes from countries closest to its flight path scoured a large search area for any wreckage.

The airline said people from 14 nationalities were among the 227 passengers – at least 152 Chinese, 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French and three Americans.

A Chinese and an American infants were also on board.

Vietnamese state media, quoting a senior naval official, had reported that the Boeing 777-200ER flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had crashed off south Vietnam.

Malaysia's transport minister later denied any crash scene had been identified.

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