Beijing: Furious Chinese families threatened yesterday to go on hunger strike until the Malaysian government tells them the truth about the fate of their relatives aboard a Malaysia Airlines flight, which went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Anguish: A relative of a Chinese passenger aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 shows a paper reading ‘Hunger strike protest’. Families and friends said that officials weren’t being honest and all they wanted was right information. Pics/PTI, AFP

Ten days after the airliner vanished an hour into its flight, hundreds of family members are still waiting for information in a Beijing hotel.