'You are traitors to us... you have let us down. Tell us the truth': Screaming family members of missing MH370 passengers are dragged out of press conference demanding answers as Malaysian officials say Maldives plane sighting 'not true'
- Investigators discount reports plane may have been sighted over Maldives
- Relatives of passengers on missing plane invade press conference
- Family members held up banners blaming the government of inaction
- Two women removed and taken to separate room, according to reports
Screaming family members of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet were forcibly removed from a hotel room after invading a press conference which was about to start, accusing the Malaysian government of failing to work hard enough to find the plane.
Half a dozen people held up banners blaming the government of inaction as airline officials desperately tried to resume order.
But one women screamed: 'You are traitors to us... you have let us down. Tell us the truth! We want the truth!'
Two women, believed to be relatives of passengers on board the missing plane, were forcibly removed from the news conference and taken to another room, Sky News has reported.
Investigators meanwhile searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane have discounted reports the plane may have been sighted over the Maldives.
Two women were forcibly removed and taken to another room after invading a hotel room where a press conference was about to take place today
A family member of missing passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 from China speaks to the media at Kuala Lumpur International Airport
A woman is carried out by security officials after she tried to protest before a press conference at a hotel in Sepang, Malaysia
Several residents of Kudahuvadhoo, one of the more remote atolls in the Indian Ocean island chain nation, had reported seeing a low-flying aircraft on the morning of March 8, when Flight MH370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Malaysia's Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a daily news conference today that the reports had been investigated by police in the Maldives and were determined to be untrue.
The anger of the Chinese group reflected the fury of other relatives in Beijing who have threatened to go on a hunger strike unless more details about the search for the flight were immediately released.
During the press conference Hishammuddin said he 'fully understands' the frustration of the relatives of the missing passengers and said a high-level delegation was being sent to Beijing to speak to the families.
Meanwhile, investigators probing the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner with 239 people on board believe it most likely flew into the southern Indian Ocean, a source close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
No wreckage has been found from Flight MH370, which vanished from air traffic control screens off Malaysia's east coast at 1:21 a.m. local time on March 8, less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.
Chinese family members of missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 passenger are escorted away from the media outside the media conference area at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur International Airport
Relatives of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines plane were reportedly forcibly removed from a hotel room where a press conference was about to start
The half a dozen people held up banners blaming the government of inaction as airline officials desperately tried to resume order
An unprecedented search for the Boeing 777-200ER is under way involving 26 nations in two vast search 'corridors': one arcing north overland from Laos towards the Caspian Sea, the other curving south across the Indian Ocean from west of Indonesia's Sumatra island to west of Australia.
'The working assumption is that it went south, and furthermore that it went to the southern end of that corridor,' said the source.
The view is based on the lack of any evidence from countries along the northern corridor that the plane entered their airspace, and the failure to find any trace of wreckage in searches in the upper part of the southern corridor.
China, which is leading the northern corridor search with Kazakhstan, said it had not yet found any sign of the aircraft crossing into its territory.
Relatives of Chinese passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 watch a TV news programme about the search for the plane at a hotel in Beijing
Tens of thousands of signatures have been written on a prayer wall at Kuala Lumpur Airport, begging MH370 and its passengers to come home
Malaysian and U.S. officials believe the aircraft was deliberately diverted perhaps thousands of miles off course, but an exhaustive background search of the passengers and crew aboard has not yielded anything that might explain why.
Tens of thousands of signatures have been written on a prayer wall at Kuala Lumpur Airport, begging MH370 and its passengers to come home.
Airline officials said they were deeply touched by the vast public response and by the faith shown by most of those who signed - a faith that the jet might be found and the passengers will be still alive.
Most of the signatures, which have swelled by the thousands each day, say their prayers are with the passengers with most messages saying simply: MH370, Come Home Safely.
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