KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian government, specifically the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 search team, have extended their sympathies and condolences to the victims and families involved in the South Korean ferry tragedy.
In conveying this, Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said: “We emphathise and can imagine how difficult it can be for the families and the search and rescue team coping with the situation.
“All our thoughts and prayers are with them,” he said.
He said this at a press briefing on developments in the hunt for the Malaysian plane with 239 people aboard that vanished from radar screens while on a Kuala Lumpur-to-Beijing flight on March 8.
A multinational search operation is currently underway for the Boeing 777-200 aircaft in the southern Indian Ocean, in waters off Perth, Australia.
In the South Korean tragedy, the ferry carrying more than 450 passengers and crew capsized on Wednesday while on its journey from the port of Incheon to the southern holiday island of Jeju.
Twenty-nine people are now known to have died in the disaster, with 179 rescued. — Bernama