Two more MH17 crash victims identified

December 12, 2014 12:25 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 06:52 pm IST - The Hague

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (C) and Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott (R) meet staff at the Crisis Management Center in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra December 12, 2014. The center is where the recovery efforts for both Malaysia Airlines flights MH17 and MH370 are being co-ordinated. Poroshenko is on a three-day official visit to Australia from December 10 to 12.     REUTERS/Stefan Postles/Pool     (AUSTRALIA - Tags: POLITICS)

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (C) and Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott (R) meet staff at the Crisis Management Center in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra December 12, 2014. The center is where the recovery efforts for both Malaysia Airlines flights MH17 and MH370 are being co-ordinated. Poroshenko is on a three-day official visit to Australia from December 10 to 12. REUTERS/Stefan Postles/Pool (AUSTRALIA - Tags: POLITICS)

Two more victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine have been identified, raising total number of the identified victims to 294, the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice announced.

The flight crashed on July 17 over Ukraine airspace, killing all 298 passengers on board, of whom 196 were Dutch citizens. Four victims, who remain unidentified, were Dutch, Xinhua reported on Friday.

All identifications of the victims have been carried out in Hilversum, a city in North Holland province, by the National Forensic Investigation Team (LTFO) based on tooth status, fingerprints or DNA.

Information about the remaining four unidentified victims might be available on the body parts currently present in Hilversum.

A Dutch military transport aircraft arrived at Eindhoven Air Base, the home base of the Royal Netherlands Air Force’s transport aircraft Nov 28, from Kharkiv, carrying six coffins with the victims’ remains.

Kharkiv is Ukraine’s second largest city in the northeast part of the country, from where the remains of many crash victims were gathered.

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