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发帖数: 7881 | 1 KUALA LUMPUR — Chinese relatives of the passengers on the missing Malaysian
jet have changed hotels to make way for crews arriving for the Malaysian
Grand Prix after two weeks of searches that have yielded little more than
fresh questions.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, went
missing on March 8 about an hour after take-off from Kuala Lumpur en route
for Beijing.
An international team searching the southern Indian Ocean has not turned up
anything, and Australia’s deputy prime minister said suspected debris
spotted on satellite pictures may have sunk.
Some Chinese family members who flew to the Southeast Asian nation to be
closer to the heart of search operations had been staying at the Cyberview
Resort & Spa near Kuala Lumpur, where they were engaged in what was at times
an emotional struggle to elicit information from the government.
“The Chinese families were here, but they have already left. We are fully
booked. There is no space because of Formula One,” a woman who answered the
phone at the resort told Reuters.
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Chinese family members of passengers on the missing jet walk with their
counselor (center) at the Cyberview Resort & Spa.
Photo: EPA
She did not give her name and said she did not know where the families would
be staying. Malaysian officials said the families would be put up at
another hotel.
On Wednesday, grief turned to anger when several family members unfurled a
protest banner in front of a throng of journalists, demanding more
information from the Malaysian government. The ruckus prompted police to
escort the relatives, including a distraught mother, away from the briefing
room.
The Grand Prix is one of the biggest sporting events in Malaysia, when room
rates at some hotels soar as drivers, their teams and sponsors travel to
Kuala Lumpur for the weekend race.
Several foreign officials, investigators and journalists are also being
forced by the event to move out of a hotel near the Kuala Lumpur
international airport, which had become the ad hoc headquarters for
coordinating search operations.
“We will be moving out of here because the F1 race is going to go on,”
Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said. |
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