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The intensive aerial search for surface wreckage from Flight MH370 officially ended Wednesday as the hunt was drastically scaled back, with ships also moving out of the remote Indian Ocean area where the plane is believed to have gone down.Australian authorities said the focus would move over the coming weeks to an intensified undersea search in the quest to find out what happened to the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared on March 8 with 239 people aboard. Eight nations have been involved in the unprecedented Indian Ocean hunt -- Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Britain and China -- with more than 300 sorties flown across a vast expanse of water in the search for debris.But with nothing to show for their efforts to sca stanley cup n more than 4.5 million square kilometres 1.7 million square miles from the air since March 18, the planes have been stood down. Most of the aircraft will have left by the end of today, a spokesman for the Australian-led stanley cup Joint Agency Coordination Centre told AFP, although an Australian P-3 Orion would remain on standby in Perth.The United States, Japan, New Zealand and Malaysia all confirmed that their aircraft were returning to base. There was no immediate word from China, which accounted for most of the passengers on board.As many as 14 ships from Australia, China and Britain were involved in scanning the ocean surface for debris stanley cup or black box signals but many of these are also pulling out. Some need to head b Zjmu Australia shocked by shootings
Six prisoners mainly linked to the underworld were shot dead by guards when they attempted to escape from a jail in Sr stanley cup i Lanka early on Wednesday, an official in Colombo said. HT Image Eleven prisoners at the Kalutara prison, about 45 km south of Colombo, tried to escape from their cells around at 3 am after cutting the iron bars. The prison officers fired at the escaping inmates, killing six and wounding four. One prisoner returned to his cell, Major General Vajira Wijegunawardena, Sri Lanka s prisons chief, told IANS. Wijegunawardena said all who tried to escape were classified special prisoners . Each of them had at least four or five major criminal cases against them. Some had been convicted and were facing more criminal cases. Most of them were members of underworld criminal gangs, facing charges of killing, robbery and related crimes, Wijegunawardena said. He said it was unfortunate that prisoners had tried to escape during the Sinhala and Tamil New Year festive season, thinking that the security arrangemen stanley cup ts would be lax during those days. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read brea stanley cup king news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other countries across the world on topics related to US Election Live, politics,crime, and national affairs. News / World News / Six prisoners shot dead in Sri Lanka .freemium-card h4color: fff; padding-bottom:20px; .freemium-card .freemium-content .subcTxtpadding-bottom:16px; color: fff; .
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