A debris hunter has found personal items including a small backpack, purse, laptops and cell phones presumably from passengers aboard doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 in the waters off Madagascar.
Blaine Gibson, an American attorney and adventurer, found about 15-20 personal items between June 7-16 on the island of Nosy Boraha, near Madagascar, according to CNN. He also recovered two more pieces of possible debris from the plane.
It is the same area where Gibson found pieces of the plane's wreckage June 6.
Gibson found another piece of the wreckage in February off the coast of Mozambique. Gibson has been hunting the flight for the last year.
The flight disappeared March 2014 with 239 people on board.
Several other pieces of the plane have washed up over the past year around the Indian Ocean. However, officials have not been able to find the main underwater wreckage despite an extensive search.
Officials from Australia, China and Malaysia are meeting to discuss the search this week, according to CNN.
Crews are expected to complete their sweep of the 46,000-square-mile area by August. There are no plans to extend the search beyond that.
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