Six months after the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, families of the lost passengers say that the Chinese police are increasingly becoming hostile toward them, according to various reports.

Two-thirds of those lost were Chinese passengers. As the Flight MH370 saga drags on, bereaved families report that the Chinese government is compounding their pain and desperation with official pressure.

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Several relatives were reportedly detained and physically abused by the Chinese police in apparent efforts to press the Chinese and Malaysian authorities for results in their hunt for the missing plane.

In interviews, the Chinese relatives stress that they are angry at the Malaysian Airlines and its government although recent abuses from the Chinese police are making them suspicious of their own.

Cheng Liping, whose husband was on the flight, told the Reuters that the Beijing police were initially protective of the relatives. The authorities' attitude, however, has recently changed.

Disappointed, Liping said that she cannot begin to understand why the Chinese authorities are detaining and physically abusing them.

One woman told her story of detention to The Guardian said: "I was strangled by a tall officer and almost got choked." In her attempt to escape, about six to seven policemen dragged and beat her.

The woman's daughter tried to take a picture of incident as evidence.

"But a policewoman took her mobile phone away and pushed her to the ground, dragging her hair," she recounted. Her daughter was later held at an interrogation room as well.

Family members who rushed to the detention station where they were being held were subsequently beaten by the police.

In July, 14 adults and two young children who travelled from the countryside and spent the night at the Malaysian Airlines office in protest were arrested. The company has earlier given them permission to stay, although the Beijing police proceeded to arrest them citing that it was against regulations. 

The Telegraph reported that the Beijing police dragged one of the children and threw him in the back of the van.

"We have felt helpless and alone, as if we were abandoned by the government," said one of the relatives who was among the 30 detained at various police stations for staging a protest against the airline company.

September 8 marks the six-month disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 in which 239 passengers and crews disappeared. To this day, a painstaking international search is yet to provide any conclusive evidence of the jet's demise.

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