China on Tuesday asked Malaysia to provide them the satellite data of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The demand came hours after the Malaysian government announced on Monday night that the troubled plane “ended” in southern Indian Ocean.
“We demand the Malaysian side to make clear the specific basis on which they come to this judgment,” China’s Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Hangsheng told Malaysian Ambassador Datuk Iskandar Bin Sarudin to Beijing during their meeting on Monday night, as published on Xinhua, China’s official news agency.
Meanwhile, dozens of angry families of the missing passengers protested outside the Malaysian Embassy on Tuesday, accusing the Malaysian government of “cheating” them and demanded for the return of their relatives. The day marks the 18th day of the plane search.
Hours earlier, Malaysian Parliament, Prime Minister Najib Razak led a press conference at Putra World Trade Centre Monday in Kuala Lumpur, saying that a new analysis of satellite data has confirmed that the missing plane crashed in a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean. All the 239 passengers, most of them are Chinese nationals, are being presumed dead.
“MH370 flew along the southern corridor and its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean west of Perth. This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, Flight MH370 ended in the Southern Indian Ocean.” Razak said. The said data came from Inmarsat, the British satellite telecommunications company that made the calculation of the possible location of the missing plane.
“We all feel enormous sorrow and pain. Sorrow that all those who boarded Flight MH370 on Saturday 8th March, will not see their families again. And that those families will now have to live on without those they love,” a statement reads at MalaysiaAirlines.com, adding that an initial financial assistance of $5,000 has already been given to each of the immediate families of all the missing passengers.
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