An Australian woman who lost her brother and sister-in-law in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has discovered her stepdaughter was on the plane shot down over Ukraine.
Kaylene Mann's brother Rob Burrows was on board the aircraft with his wife when it went missing in March.
She has now learned that her stepdaughter - Maree Rizk - was killed along with 297 others on MH17 which crashed yesterday.
US intelligence agencies believe it was shot down by a surface-to-air missile.
Ms Mann's brother Greg said "It's just brought everyone, everything back. It's just ripped our guts again".
"She (Ms Mann) just lost a brother and now a stepdaughter".
Mr Burrows added he did not blame Malaysia Airlines "Nobody could predict they were going to get shot down. That was out of their hands".
Maree Rizk was returning home after a four-week holiday in Europe with her husband Albert, who also died. The family - from Melbourne - were heavily involved with local side Sunbury Football Club.
Club president Phil Lithgow said "They were very lovely people. You wouldn't hear a bad word about them - very generous with their time in the community, very community-minded, and just really very entertaining people to be with".
Club members are due to wear black armbands and observe a short silence at their game on Saturday.
'Bizarre twist of fate'
Among the 283 passengers and 15 Malaysia Airlines cabin crew on board were also 173 Dutch nationals, 44 Malaysians, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos, one Canadian and a New Zealander.
In a bizarre twist of fate, flight attendant Sajid Singh (41) swapped flights to fly on MH17 - months after his wife swapped off the doomed MH370 which vanished flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, his his father Jijar Singh told The Malaysian Insider.
The Star Online reported Malaysian PM Najib Razak's step-grandmother was among the passengers aboard the fateful flight.
Sailor and businessman Nick Norris (68) was also heading back from a breakaway in Europe with his three grandchildren, Milo Maslin (12) Evie Maslin (10) and Otis Maslin (8), Perth Now reported.
The children's parents were said to be devastated, while Mr Norris's daughter Natalia Gemmell, said her father was a "great man" and described her niece and nephews as "gentle, clever and beautiful kids".
The Australian media also reported a much-loved nun, Philomene Tiernan, from Sydney, Toorak college teacher Frankie Davison and her husband Liam, student Elaine Teoh and her Dutch boyfriend Emiel Mahler, Canberra mother-of-two Liliane Derden and security consultant Marco Grippeling, from Melbourne, among the victims.
Young Dutchman Cor Pan, from Volendam, north of Amsterdam, who is also believed to have perished in the disaster, posted a picture of the jetliner on Facebook, minutes before he boarded it, writing "If it should disappear, this is what it looks like".
