MH370 'hijacked and in Afghanistan': Russian intelligence source claims all passengers and crew are alive but held hostage

A Russian newspaper has claimed that Flight MH370 was
hijacked by "unknown terrorists" and flown to
Afghanistan, where the crew and passengers are now
being held hostage.
The extraordinary comments, attributed to a Russian
intelligence source, appeared in the Moskovsky
Komsomolets newspaper.
The source told the paper: "Flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines
missing on March 8 with 239 passengers was hijacked.
"Pilots are not guilty; the plane was hijacked by unknown
terrorists.
"We know that the name of the terrorist who gave
instructions to pilots is "Hitch."
"The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near
the border with Pakistan."

According to The Daily Star, Moskovsky Komsomolets also
claims the passengers have been divided into seven
groups and are living in mud huts with almost no food.
Twenty Asian passengers were said to have been
smuggled into a bunker in Pakistan.

It is also claimed that the terrorists are possibly seeking to
bargain with either America or China .
The news, perhaps unsurprisingly, has not been confirmed
by authorities either in Malaysia or China.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared soon after
taking off on March 8 from Kuala Lumpur bound for
Beijing.
It had 227 passengers and 12 crew on board, triggering a
multinational search that is now focused on the Indian
Ocean.
On Friday, the Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott,
has said he was "very confident" that signals picked up by
search teams in the Indian Ocean were from missing Flight
MH370's black box.
During a visit to Beijing, China, he told the the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation: "We have very much narrowed
down the search area and we are very confident the
signals are from the black box."
A fifth signal was detected by search crews on Friday.
The signals will eventually allow them to determine an
exact resting place for the downed Boeing 777.
They will then send down a submersible vehicle to plumb
the depths of the ocean for the black box.
The 'pings' emitted by Flight MH370's black box are soon
expected to fade, more than a month after the plane,
which was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew,
disappeared on March 8.