KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 — The oil slick found off the coast of Kelantan did not come from the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 aircraft, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) confirmed today.

MMEA eastern region enforcement chief Datuk Nasir Adam told reporters at MMEA’s base in Tok Bali this afternoon that results from tests on the oil slick samples revealed that they were “bunker fuel”.

According to a local Kelantan-based journalist, Nasir confirmed the matter after receiving a text message from Kuala Lumpur.

MMEA director-general Datuk Amdan Kurish had told reporters yesterday that samples from the oil slick were retrieved and sent to the Chemistry Department for testing.

The samples were reportedly collected from a 2km-long slick in waters some 180km off the Kelantan coast, according to the AFP.

Earlier yesterday, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein had confirmed that an oil slick was found in Vietnam waters where the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was last located, but added that no debris had been sighted yet.

It has now been nearly three days since the plane last communicated with the Subang Air Traffic Control, and many continue to speculate the plane has crashed in the Gulf of Thailand, some 250km south of Vietnam.

The last coordinates where the aircraft was last heard at 1.30am Saturday morning from puts it somewhere 120 nautical miles off Kota Baru.

The Beijing-bound aircraft was carrying 239 passengers onboard, including 12 crew members and two infants.