Kuala Lumpur: Chinese businessman Li Hua suffered a stroke, has considered suicide, and his wife has been hospitalised with heart trouble, all since their daughter went missing on flight MH370.
A. Amirtham, a retired Malaysian clinic worker, suffers fainting spells and a lack of sleep and appetite over the disappearance of her only son Puspanathan.
Li Jiuying is tormented by the loss of her big brother Li Guohai and the burden of lying to their elderly mother that he was not on the flight. The mother believes he is tied up with a business dispute.
One year after the Malaysia Airlines jet vanished, next of kin are trapped inside what one describes as a "black hole" of emotional and often physical suffering.
Li Hua, 58, who only recently recovered the full use of his left arm following last year's stroke, used to be a fitness buff.
"Now I just feel sick," he said, chain-smoking.
"I have thought of suicide but... why? I need to stay alive for my wife and fight for the truth."
- 'Nothing can be the same' -
But the truth remains painfully elusive for families as the tragedy's March 8 anniversary nears.
In one of aviation's most baffling mysteries, the Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard inexplicably detoured from its Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route, heading west and south into the Indian Ocean and history.
A year-long search in that ocean's remote southern reaches -- now focussed on high-tech sonar scanning of the seabed -- has found nothing.
04/05/15 AFP/Bangkok Post
A. Amirtham, a retired Malaysian clinic worker, suffers fainting spells and a lack of sleep and appetite over the disappearance of her only son Puspanathan.
Li Jiuying is tormented by the loss of her big brother Li Guohai and the burden of lying to their elderly mother that he was not on the flight. The mother believes he is tied up with a business dispute.
One year after the Malaysia Airlines jet vanished, next of kin are trapped inside what one describes as a "black hole" of emotional and often physical suffering.
Li Hua, 58, who only recently recovered the full use of his left arm following last year's stroke, used to be a fitness buff.
"Now I just feel sick," he said, chain-smoking.
"I have thought of suicide but... why? I need to stay alive for my wife and fight for the truth."
- 'Nothing can be the same' -
But the truth remains painfully elusive for families as the tragedy's March 8 anniversary nears.
In one of aviation's most baffling mysteries, the Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard inexplicably detoured from its Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route, heading west and south into the Indian Ocean and history.
A year-long search in that ocean's remote southern reaches -- now focussed on high-tech sonar scanning of the seabed -- has found nothing.
04/05/15 AFP/Bangkok Post
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