• First-aid medical staff and paramilitary police are seen outside the Malaysia embassy as family members of passengers aboard Malaysian Airlines MH370 protest. Jason Lee / Reuters
    First-aid medical staff and paramilitary police are seen outside the Malaysia embassy as family members of passengers aboard Malaysian Airlines MH370 protest. Jason Lee / Reuters
  • Grieving relatives hold placards as they march towards the Malaysian embassy. Goh Chai Hin / AFP Photo
    Grieving relatives hold placards as they march towards the Malaysian embassy. Goh Chai Hin / AFP Photo
  • Hundreds of protesters, including many relatives of missing flight MH370 passengers, marched on the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing demanding answers from Malaysian authorities about the fate of the flight. Lintao Zhang / Getty Images
    Hundreds of protesters, including many relatives of missing flight MH370 passengers, marched on the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing demanding answers from Malaysian authorities about the fate of the flight. Lintao Zhang / Getty Images
  • A family member of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 shouts as policemen attempt to prevent them from marching down a street during a protest, near Lido Hotel in Beijing. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
    A family member of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 shouts as policemen attempt to prevent them from marching down a street during a protest, near Lido Hotel in Beijing. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
  • Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak said on 24 March that the missing plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. Reports stated that Malaysia Airlines sent text messages to relatives of the passengers regarding what happened to the flight. Adrian Bradshaw / EPA
    Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak said on 24 March that the missing plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. Reports stated that Malaysia Airlines sent text messages to relatives of the passengers regarding what happened to the flight. Adrian Bradshaw / EPA
  • “Return our relatives,” around 200 family members cried at the gates of the Beijing mission, which was protected by a row of uniformed police and plain clothes security. Lintao Zhang / Getty Images
    “Return our relatives,” around 200 family members cried at the gates of the Beijing mission, which was protected by a row of uniformed police and plain clothes security. Lintao Zhang / Getty Images
  • Scuffles broke out when uniformed security personnel attempted to block some of the relatives from reaching reporters, who were being kept in a designated area. One woman was taken away on a stretcher. Lintao Zhang / Getty Images
    Scuffles broke out when uniformed security personnel attempted to block some of the relatives from reaching reporters, who were being kept in a designated area. One woman was taken away on a stretcher. Lintao Zhang / Getty Images
  • Family members of passengers onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 look out of the windows of a bus before heading to the Malaysian embassy. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
    Family members of passengers onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 look out of the windows of a bus before heading to the Malaysian embassy. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
  • A family member of a passenger on board Malaysia Airlines MH370 cries as he shouts slogans during a protest in front of the Malaysian embassy in Beijing, March 25, 2014. Angry relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane denounced the Kuala Lumpur government and its national carrier as “executioners” on Tuesday and said they would march on the Malaysian Embassy. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
    A family member of a passenger on board Malaysia Airlines MH370 cries as he shouts slogans during a protest in front of the Malaysian embassy in Beijing, March 25, 2014. Angry relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane denounced the Kuala Lumpur government and its national carrier as “executioners” on Tuesday and said they would march on the Malaysian Embassy. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
  • At a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Airlines’ chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya defended the carrier against criticism that relatives were told in a text message that the plane was lost with no survivors. Adrian Bradshaw / EPA
    At a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Airlines’ chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya defended the carrier against criticism that relatives were told in a text message that the plane was lost with no survivors. Adrian Bradshaw / EPA
  • Angry relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane denounced the Kuala Lumpur government and its national carrier as “executioners” on Tuesday. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
    Angry relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane denounced the Kuala Lumpur government and its national carrier as “executioners” on Tuesday. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
  • China has demanded that Kuala Lumpur hand over the satellite data which led it to conclude that the Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight crashed at sea and that none of the 239 people aboard survived. Two-thirds of the passengers were Chinese. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
    China has demanded that Kuala Lumpur hand over the satellite data which led it to conclude that the Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight crashed at sea and that none of the 239 people aboard survived. Two-thirds of the passengers were Chinese. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters

The National

In pictures: Relatives of MH370 passengers protest in Beijing

Mark Asquith

March 25, 2014

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Angry relatives of Chinese passengers aboard Flight MH370 scuffled with security personnel Tuesday as they descended on Malaysia’s embassy in protest, weeping as they demanded answers on the crashed plane.

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