BEIJING — About two dozen Chinese relatives of passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Friday staged a small protest outside China’s Foreign Ministry calling on governments to continue searching for the plane.
The relatives gathered outside the ministry in Beijing and demanded to see the foreign minister to submit a petition to him saying that last week’s decision to suspend the search was irresponsible.
China, Australia and Malaysia announced last week that the more than two-year hunt for the missing flight would be suspended once the current search area in the Indian Ocean has been scoured, likely by the end of the year.
The protest came the same day Australian officials announced that a wing part found last month on an East African island most likely came from the missing plane.
The debris, which was found on Pemba Island off the coast of Tanzania, was analyzed by experts at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is heading up the search for the plane in a remote stretch of ocean far off Australia’s west coast.