Engineer Huan Peen Chan, 46, spent four years at Sunderland University in the 1990s, before returning to his native Malaysia. He may have been on board the missing Malaysian Airways flight MH370.
The University of Sunderland has said staff are "deeply concerned" to hear reports that one of its ex-students may have been on board the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
They received a report that the girl was seen being forced into a white van on Coldwell Street, Felling.
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