Tears and cries as all hopes extinguished

Source: AFP | March 24, 2014, Monday |

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TEARS and cries of inconsolable pain and loss echoed from a Beijing hotel ballroom on Monday as the relatives of MH370 passengers learned the news: their loved ones were dead.

Some clung on to other family members for crumbs of comfort as they left the room where they were told the Malaysia Airlines flight had ended, incontestably, in the remote southern Indian Ocean.

Paramedics carrying stretchers rushed into the ballroom at the Lido hotel in Beijing, where relatives of many of the 154 Chinese passengers on board the aircraft had been waiting for more than two weeks.

Even the possibility of a hijack had meant there was still a chance their loved ones were still alive.

After the announcement, they realised there was no hope for survival. There was no hope at all.

Some burst out the room crying uncontrollably, being held by other family members, while others wiped tears from their eyes as left the briefing.

Others simply covered their heads, hiding their emotions.

Inside, the wails of the bereaved echoed.

Relatives at the hotel appeared in no mood to speak, one who talked to AFP by telephone said: "We know we have no hope left now."

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Tears and cries as all hopes extinguished

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