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Are China's Uighur separatists responsible for Malaysian Airline jet disappearance?

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ANI Sydney

Representatives from the Uighur separatist movement may be behind the Malaysia Airlines flight's disappearance.

An email sent to journalists from a 35-year-old Uighur man, from China's troubled autonomous Muslim province, was on Flight MH370 is being reportedly being looked at as a new angle after earlier it was believed to be as irrelevant.

According to news.com.au, the email, supposedly from representatives from the Uighur separatist movement, claimed for responsibility for the Malaysia Airlines flight's disappearance.

The emails were dismissed as opportunistic and troublemaking.

Malaysia's Harian Metro claimed the man had taken flight-simulator training in Sweden in 2005.

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First Published: Mar 16 2014 | 10:38 AM IST

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