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Planes fly more bodies from Ukraine crash site

July 26, 2014 06:43 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 06:51 pm IST - KHARKIV, Ukraine

Coffins carrying the bodies were flown out to a forensic center in the Netherlands for identification and investigation.

Jerzy Dyczynski and Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski, whose 25-year-old daughter Fatima, was a passenger on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, sit on part of the wreckage of the crashed aircraft in Hrabove, Ukraine, on Saturday.

Two cargo planes have flown 38 more coffins carrying the bodies of victims of the Malaysia Airlines disaster out of eastern Ukraine to a forensic center in the Netherlands for identification and investigation.

The planes took off on Saturday from Kharkiv, a government—controlled city where the bodies have been brought from the crash site in territory held by pro—Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian government. U.S. and Ukrainian officials say the plane was shot down by a missile from rebel territory, likely by mistake.

Officials said the flights took the last of the victims that have been brought to Kharkiv. International observers have said there are still remains at the crash site.

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