2014年CRI 马航MH370水下搜索工作首度展开

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An underwater search is now underway for the flight data recorder of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

A Chinese ship is joining an Australian submarine in the first sub-surface search for the flight's so-called black box.

The search itself is taking place in an area about 17-hundred kilometers northwest of Perth, Australia.

It comes just under a month after the flight disappeared on March 8th with 239-passangers and crew onboard.

Black-box batteries generally run out of power after around a month.

This is CRI News.

The Philippine government is now pointing the finger at the Abu Sayyaf militant¹ group as being responsible for the kidnapping of a Chinese national this week in Malaysia.

Philippine authorities say a group of 7-men led by a known member of Abu Sayyaf kidnapped two women at gunpoint Wednesday evening from a popular tourist resort, then eluded² Malaysian authorities and made their way into the Philippine Sea.

It's believed the kidnappers³ and their hostages are now in the southern Philippines.

Phlippine authorities have not disclosed how they've come-by this information, or whether any ransom⁴ demands have been issued.

29-year old Gao Huayun from Shanghai was on a scuba-diving trip with a friend when she was taken.