DHAKA: The government has sent two Navy ships to investigate the claim by Australian company GeoResonance that it may have found wreckage of the missing Malaysia plane in the Bay of Bengal.

A top Malaysian official Friday said he is considering the theory that MH370 may be in the Bay of Bengal, reported international media.

Acting Transportation Minister of Malaysia Hishammuddin Hussein said that the tip could only be confirmed by sending vessels to the area, which is thousands of kilometers away from the official search area in the southern Indian ocean.

"But I just want to stress that by doing that, we are distracting ourselves from the main search," Hussein said Friday. "And in the event that the result from the search is negative, who is going to be responsible for that loss of time?"

Hussein did not mention any specific plans to send resources to the Bay of Bengal.

BDST: 1806 HRS, May 2, 2014