Men and women wailed in Beijing's Metro Park Lido Hotel after Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced on Monday night the missing plane ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

Deep sorrow and anger gripped about 200 relatives of passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 after they watched a live broadcast of the prime minister's press briefing at 10 p.m. at a hotel conference room.

Some collapsed and were taken out of the room on stretchers. Some even have clashes with swarming photographers struggling to take photos.

"Why they always keep us uninformed?" cried an elderly woman, falling on her knees.

Reporters are banned from entering the room where the relatives are staying.

Sixteen days after the jet disappeared with 239 people on board, of whom 154 were Chinese, the Malaysian prime minister announced the plane's last position was a remote location far from any possible landing sites, adding that it ended in the southern Indian Ocean according to new satellite data.

While some still have hopes.

"The announcement is not a final result," said a young woman, a close friend of a 25-year-old passenger on board the plane.

"I'm waiting for the truth to be disclosed," she said.

"I dreamed of her twice and I must wait for her to come back," she added. 

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