Chinese students stand by candles while praying
for the passengers aboard the missing Boeing 777 at a school in Zhuji
city. The disappearance may be down to a terrorist act
One of the two men who used stolen
passports to board the missing Malaysian Airlines plane looked like
Mario Balotelli, Malaysian officials have claimed.
Yet, hours later, a fresh report has emerged claiming that the pair were in fact Iranian nationals on a quest to flee their country's oppressive regime.
That seems to tie
in with an earlier announcement by Thai officials that an Iranian
businessman called Kazem Ali had booked the tickets for the two
passengers.
Vietnamese military personnel prepare a helicopter for a search and rescue mission for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight
The
latest report, by BBC Persian, quotes a Iranian friend of one of the
men who says he hosted them in Kuala Lumpur after they arrived from
Tehran.
They bought fake
passports in the Malaysian capital to travel to Europe and claim asylum,
he claimed.
After reaching Beijing, the destination of flight MH370,
the pair were said to have intended to carry on to Amsterdam.
One
had planned to then travel to Frankfurt, to join his mother there,
while the other wanted to continue on to Denmark. They were 'looking for
a place settle', an editor at BBC Persian told The Telegraph.
'There is no evidence to suggest an act of terror,' a European security source told Reuters. He added that there was also 'no explanation what's happened to it or where it is.'
A group of Malaysian residents pose after
lighting candles during a vigil for missing Malaysia Airlines passengers
at the Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur
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