Malaysian papers turn black in tribute to crashed jet:

Malaysian papers turn black in tribute to crashed jet:


KUALA LUMPUR, March 25, 2014 (AFP) - Malaysian newspapers ran arresting atramentous foreground pages Tuesday in accolade to the victims of Flight MH370, which comatose in the southern Indian Ocean with 239 humans aboard.

Malaysia's better English-language daily, The Star, ran a abrupt wrap-around awning emblazoned with the words "MH370 R.I.P." The names of the victims, rendered in baby print, fabricated up the belletrist of the headline.

The New Straits Times' blurred foreground page showed an aircraft aloft the words "Goodnight, MH370" -- a advertence to the endure bulletin from the cockpit, "All right, acceptable night", afore the Malaysia Airlines jet absent acquaintance on March 8.

Malay- and Chinese-language affidavit aswell ran foreground pages with atramentous backgrounds, while The Sun, an English-language daily, afflicted its masthead to black.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak appear Monday that latest assay of digital abstracts showed that the flight, which went missing en avenue from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, had concluded in the southern Indian Ocean.

Bad acclimate bedfast the seek for bits off the bank of Australia on Tuesday, and it charcoal a abstruseness why the even absent from its aboriginal route.

The Star said in an beat that the relatives' "long delay for some anatomy of cease has assuredly arrived".

But it alleged for ample efforts to authorize the affidavit for the crash.

On amusing media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, abounding Malaysians angry their contour backgrounds atramentous or displayed a even figure in accolade to the victims.

Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein acclimated his Twitter page to alarm for all citizens of the multi-ethnic country to adjure for the victims and their families.

"Our seek for #MH370 continues," he said.


Veteran action baby-kisser Lim Kit Siang wrote on his Twitter page: "Saddest 4 families ancestors accompany of 239 on lath MH370 - that they accept asleep in South Indian Ocean. Not just them but a arrant world."
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