CYBERJAYA, Mar 11 — Family members of Chinese nationals aboard the missing flight MH370 began arriving today as the mystery deepens on the fate of the Malaysia Airlines plane.
A dozen relatives of the missing passengers were confirmed to have arrived this morning and have been put up at a resort in Cyberjaya, some 60 kilometres from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).
Local media reports said authorities have kept them away from the prying eyes of the media since they landed, before whisking them away in Chinese diplomatic vehicles.
But the effort went to nought as they were greeted by a scrum of photographers and cameramen on arrival at the resort.
Most shielded their faces, rushing into the resort past the flurry of flashes and questions from local and Chinese media gathered at the entrance.
Volunteer counsellors later arrived on scene to meet the family members, but media were barred from straying very far from the resort’s lobby area.
Later in the day, a group of relatives on the way to have lunch at the resort’s restaurant had a run-in with the media, getting caught in a crush of photographers and cameramen mostly from the Chinese and Hong Kong media desperate for visuals.
Shouting in Mandarin, the group repeatedly shouted as the media workers kept pressing closer to them.
“Leave us alone!” some exclaimed.
At one point, a woman from the group started hitting photographers with a book, while another who managed to break away from the scrum went on a tirade over the whole debacle.
“Why is the Malaysian government treating us like this? I am sad, why are you doing this?” she screamed before storming away.
Two other groups were initially scheduled to come in from Beijing today, but it is understood that the flights have since been cancelled.
A total of 153 Chinese passengers were on flight MH370 that had been scheduled to arrive in Beijing on Saturday with 239 people aboard.
