Wing flap that washed ashore in Tanzania confirmed to belong to MH370

The Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 had in mid-air with 239 people on board during a regular flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing on March 8, 2014. A wing flap that had washed ashore on an island off Tanzania has now been identified as belonging to the missing Being 777.
This has been reported in thehindu.com dated 15 September 2016.

The flap was found in June by residents on Pemba Island off the coast of Tanzania, and an analysis by experts at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is heading up the search for the plane, has confirmed that it was indeed from the aircraft.
This was the fifth piece of wreckage from the plane that have washed ashore on coastlines around the Indian Ocean since the aircraft vanished in mid-air in 2014.
Apart from the latest discovery of a wing flap, another piece of wing was found a year ago on La Reunion Island, near Madagascar and it was positively identified by French officials.
Search officials expect some more wreckage to wash up in the coming months but, none of the debris recovered so far has helped to narrow down the precise location of the main underwater wreckage.


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Tanzania acts against witchdoctors – imposes ban on them in order to protect the albinos

#witchdoctors #tanzania #albinos Tanzania has imposed ban on witchdoctors so as to prevent attacks on albinos – it seems there are over 33,000 such people in Tanzania and, as per reports, seventy of them have been killed in the past three years and, only 10 people have been convicted of murder.
Albino people are those who lack pigment in their skin and they have been targeted by witchdoctors for their body parts because the witchdoctors believe that body parts of albinos bring good luck and wealth.
Home Affairs Minister Mathias Chikawe has indicated that there would be a nationwide operation to "arrest them and take them to court" if they continued to work and the Tanzanian Albinism Society (TAS) has welcomed the ban.
Mr Chikawe has also said that necessary action to locate and prosecute witchdoctors would begin in two weeks' time in the northern areas of Mwanza, Geita, Shinyanga, Simiyu and Tabora because most of the attacks have taken place in these regions.
Incidentally, the ban is a result of the work of a special joint task force between police and the TAS because, the cases against the alleged attackers had, in some previous cases, collapsed due to the loss, mishandling or mislabeling of evidence.