KUALA LUMPUR, March 7 — The second object discovered last Thursday on the shores of Reunion Island could be from missing Flight MH370, Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said today.

He said, however, that the origin of the debris must still be corroborated.

“We can expect, because the calculations of the drift of all debris would be around that area, which means to say any debris found within that area is tentatively, possibly from MH370 and it would be verified later on,” he told reporters when met at Parliament.

Johnny Begue, a resident of Reunion Island, said he had last Thursday found the object that measured 40 by 20 centimetres while jogging by the sea and immediately passed it to police.

Begue had last July found a flaperon or a fragment of a plane’s wing on the beach of Reunion Island, with that item already verified as belonging to the jet plane that carried MH370’s passengers and crew.

Three days ago, American amateur investigator Blaine Gibson found an aircraft piece at Mozambique, which lies about 2,100 kilometres west of Reunion Island. The item has yet to be verified by experts as belonging to MH370.

On January 29, 2015, Putrajaya declared Flight MH370 an accident under international aviation regulations, and all 239 people on board the flight were presumed dead.

Investigators are still searching in the southern Indian Ocean for the plane that disappeared on the March 8, 2014.

Abdul Aziz said a statement by the international investigators that is expected to be released on the second anniversary of the flight tomorrow is just part of standard procedure.