Chinese MH370 relatives insult ambassador

Frustrated relatives of Chinese passengers aboard missing flight MH370 demanded answers from the Malaysian ambassador for a second consecutive day, with some openly insulting him at a Beijing hotel.

"All the things that were promised, we have received nothing. Was the ambassador talking out of the other end of his body - was he talking out of his arse?" one relative said on Wednesday.

His comments drew applause from other family members, querying why some of the help previously provided by Kuala Lumpur to the families in Beijing had been withdrawn.

The ambassador, Iskandar Sarudin, explained that Malaysian administrators had been withdrawn from the hotel at the request of Chinese authorities as "emotions had been running high" after Prime Minister Najib Razak said satellite data suggested the flight had gone down in the southern Indian Ocean.

But his words did little to soothe the angry relatives and some accused him of having "unfounded" prejudices against Chinese people.

Two-thirds of the 239 people on board the missing aircraft are Chinese citizens.

The showdown at Beijing's Lido Hotel came a day after scores of emotional family members descended on the Malaysian embassy, linking arms and denouncing Kuala Lumpur after Najib's announcement.