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	In a statement released late Tuesday, police said they were investigating a report on the Haveeru news website that local residents had spotted a large plane flying over the remote southern island of Kuda Huvadhoo on March 8.&nbsp;</div>
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	&quot;The police are looking into the reports in the media saying that a low-flying airplane was sighted above Kuda Huvadhoo,&quot; the statement said.</div>
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	Several alleged sightings of the Boeing 777, which vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board, have proved to be false alarms and reports of debris at sea have also turned up nothing.</div>
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	Haveeru said witnesses on Kuda Huvadhoo had seen a white aircraft with red stripes flying towards the southern tip of the Maldives.</div>
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	&quot;I&#39;ve never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We&#39;ve seen seaplanes, but I&#39;m sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly,&quot; the website quoted one witness as saying.</div>
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	AFP</div>

Maldives police probe reports of MH370 sighting

NEW DELHI - Police in the Maldives are probing reports that islanders in the tourism paradise saw a "low-flying jumbo jet" on the day the missing Malaysia Airlines plane vanished.