Authorities of French overseas Reunion Island said on Wednesday the search for more debris of the missing Malaysian Airline MH370 will move towards the southern zones of the island starting Thursday.

A statement released by the administrator of the Reunion Island Dominique Sorain said "there was no any significant discovery, six days after the launch of a major search operation in the eastern part of the Island."

"Due to the absence of any significant discovery in this area, the search, especially aerial and underwater, will on Thursday move to the periphery of the initial zone, especially in the south, where we suspect there could be more debris," the statement said.

Last Friday, Sorain said the search would cover Reunion's eastern zone up to a search zone under the control of Mauritius authorities.

Since Monday, 42 members of the search teams have spent over 45 hours carrying out land searches on shores of Reunion's northeast zone, while aerial and underwater searches have lasted for 15 hours.

The administrator said search operations will continue until next week.

Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. A total of 239 people were on board, most of them Chinese.

On Aug. 6, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that according to findings of experts, a flaperon found off the Reunion Island last month was from the missing Malaysian aircraft.

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