Tuesday, March 25, 2014
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The death sentence 21:30
New message Malaysia Airlines deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board survived
Shock: Malaysia prime minister Najib Razak speaks during the press conference for the missing Malaysia Airline plane in in Kuala Lumpur PICTURE: AP
HEARTBROKEN relatives of those missing on flight MH370 branded the Malaysian government ‘the real executioners’ after learning in a text message their loved-ones were dead. The families of the Chinese among the 239 passengers spoke out after receiving an SMS, written in English, saying that the flight was assumed to be lost and no one had survived. The text was sent half an hour before Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak announced that data analysis by British experts showed the doomed flight, which went
n Relatives told missing are dead by text message n Families say Malaysian officials are executioners n Investigators ‘assume’ Flight MH370 has crashed
by NICOLE LE MARIE missing on March 8, ended in the southern Indian Ocean about 2,500km (1,500 miles) west of Perth, Australia. In a statement, the families accused the Malaysian government and military of constantly trying ‘to delay, and deceive the passengers’ families and cheat the whole world’. They added: ‘This shameless behaviour not only fooled and hurt the families of the 154 passengers but also misguided and delayed rescue actions, wasting a
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large quantity of human resources and materials and lost valuable time for the rescue effort. ‘If the 154 passengers did lose their lives, Malaysia Airlines, the Malaysian government and military are the real executioners who killed them.’ Relatives screamed when they heard the news at their hotel. One sobbed: ‘My son, my son.’ Later, Malaysia Airlines stressed it did not inform relatives only by text message but told them ‘via all channels’.
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