Remains of MH17 crash victims arrive in Netherlands

The remains of Dutch victims of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane which went down last year in eastern Ukraine killing 298 people on board have arrived in the Netherlands.

Dutch Security and Justice Minister Ard van der Steur, MPs and family members of victims attended a ceremony at Eindhoven Airport on Saturday marking the arrival of the remains contained in seven coffins.

The remains were later transferred for diagnosis to Hilversum city’s Van Oudheusden military garrison.

Two Dutch citizens who died in the disaster have yet to be identified.

Dutch and Malaysian investigators resumed their search for the remains of victims of Malaysia Airlines MH17 on April 16, after they were forced to suspend their operations in the area in November 2014 due to clashes between the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatists.

The Boeing 777 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it went down in eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing all passengers and crew on board, two thirds of them Dutch.

A team of 30 people has been looking for the remaining debris form the plane, personal belongings of those killed and for new evidence concerning the tragedy.

Nationals of the Netherlands, Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, the Philippines, Canada and New Zealand were among those who died.

Days after the Malaysia Airline tragedy last year, Ukraine and the U.S. accused pro-Russian separatists of shooting down the plane, a claim Moscow rejected.
 www.aa.com.tr
2/5/15
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