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Malaysian authorities have given US investigators biometric details on two passengers who used stolen passports to travel on a Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared on Saturday.
馬來西亞當局已將兩名乘客的生物信息提供給美國調查人員，這兩人上周六使用被盜護照登上途中失聯的馬來西亞航空公司(Malaysia Airlines)航班。
It is hoped the move could accelerate identification of the two men who are now at the centre of the international mystery over what happened to flight MH370, which disappeared over the South China Sea with 239 passengers and crew aboard.
各方希望，此舉能夠加快識別置身于一個國際謎團中心的這兩人的身份，這個謎團是：在南中國海上空失聯的載有239名乘客和機組人員的MH370航班究竟發生了什么？
Hishamuddin Hussein, Malaysia’s defence minister and acting transport minister, said closed circuit TV pictures of the two were also handed to US officials in Kuala Lumpur.
馬來西亞國防部長和代理交通部長希沙姆丁•侯賽因(Hishamuddin Hussein)表示，這兩人的閉路電視畫面也被交給吉隆坡的美國官員。
The Thai travel agent who booked the tickets for the men told the Financial Times yesterday that she had been asked to arrange the travel by an Iranian contact.
為這兩人訂票的泰國旅行代理昨日告訴英國《金融時報》，請她安排旅程的是一名伊朗聯系人。
The two men were travelling on flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on Italian and Austrian passports that were later confirmed to have been lost or stolen. They were then scheduled to fly together to Amsterdam, before catching separate flights to Copenhagen and Frankfurt.
這兩名男子分別使用意大利和奧地利護照登上從吉隆坡飛往北京的MH370航班，后來證實這兩本護照已遺失或被盜。然后兩人將一起飛往阿姆斯特丹，最后分別飛往哥本哈根和法蘭克福。
While their use of stolen passports has raised fears of terrorist involvement, travel documents are stolen frequently in the region and used for illegal immigration or criminal activities such as drug smuggling.
雖然他們使用被盜護照引發了有關恐怖活動的擔憂，但旅行證件在亞洲經常被盜，并用于非法移民或犯罪活動（如走私毒品）。
Benjaporn Krutnait, owner of the agency Grand Horizon Travel in Pattaya, Thailand, said the Iranian, a long-term business contact whom she knew only as “Mr Ali”, first asked her to book cheap tickets to Europe for the two men on March 1. Ms Benjaporn initially booked one of them on a Qatar Airways flight and the other on Etihad.
泰國芭堤雅Grand Horizon Travel旅行社老板Benjaporn Krutnait表示，那名伊朗人是長期的業務關系，她只知道他叫“阿里先生”。阿里最初請她為那兩人預定3月1日前往歐洲的廉價機票。Benjaporn女士起初為其中一人預定了卡塔爾航空公司(Qatar Airways)的一個航班，另一人預定了阿提哈德航空(Etihad Airways)的一個航班。
But the tickets expired when Ms Benjaporn did not hear back from Mr Ali. When he contacted her again on Thursday, she rebooked the men on the Malaysia Airlines flight through Beijing because it was the cheapest available.
但Benjaporn女士沒有及時收到阿里的回音，這些機票過期了。當阿里在上周四再次聯系她時，她為兩人重新預定了經北京中轉的馬航航班，因為當時那是最便宜的。
Mr Ali could not immediately be reached for comment on a Tehran mobile number provided by Ms Benjaporn. There is no evidence that Mr Ali knew the two men were travelling on stolen passports.
記者無法通過Benjaporn女士提供的德黑蘭手機號碼立即聯系上阿里請其置評。沒有任何證據表明阿里知道那兩人使用被盜護照旅行。
