Malaysia's Prime Minister confirms that wreckage found on Reunion Island is from MH370

The Malaysian Government has confirmed that the wreckage found on Reunion Island last week is from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

"The aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed MH370," Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak told reporters in a press conference.

MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China.

The Boeing 777-200ER- registration number 9M-MRO- vanished with 239 passengers and crew onboard.

Last week, the now identified wing fragment washed up on Reunion Island in the western Indian Ocean.

The search for the Malaysia jet has been focused on a 7.3-million-square-mile area in the southern Indian Ocean off the western coast of Australia.

Investigators believe the wreckage to be the "flaperon" from a Boeing 777's right wing.

"We now have physical evidence that flight MH370 tragically ended in the southern Indian Ocean," Razak said.

More to come.