Malaysia Airline staff held hostage by Chinese families of missing MH370 passengers

Agitated family members of the missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 reportedly held the airline's staff hostage inside a Beijing hotel for 10 hours and allegedly assaulted a security officer.

According to News.com.au, Malaysian Airlines released a statement about the two incidents which occurred late on Thursday and early yesterday as a delegation from Malaysian Airlines attempted to brief families at the Lido Hotel in Beijing.

About 200 grieving Chinese family members were called to attend a meeting, which was held by 10 Malaysian Airline staff.

The families were infuriated to learn that a Malaysian government official did not come to brief them and vented their anger on the airline staff.

Malaysian Airlines said its security supervisor, Kalaichelven Shunmugam, was allegedly kicked in the left knee by an aggressive Chinese family member at the hotel earlier in the week.

The airline said in a statement that the airline staff tried to stop an aggressive family member who demanded access to the secretariat, when the latter kicked the staff in his left knee.

The situation was finally controlled and Kalaichelven was later taken to the secretariat for first aid assistance, while the staff sustained only light injury, the report added.