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International experts reach MH17 crash site

For the first time in almost a week, international experts have been able to visit the scene of t...
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12.43 31 Jul 2014


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International experts reach MH17 crash site

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12.43 31 Jul 2014


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For the first time in almost a week, international experts have been able to visit the scene of the MH17 crash.

Access to site had been restricted due to fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels.

Police and forensic experts from the Netherlands and Australia are expected to initially focus their efforts on retrieving bodies still at the site and collecting victims' belongings.

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The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe's monitoring mission tweeted:

The Malaysia Airlines flight crashed over Ukraine while flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17th.

Earlier this week, a Ukrainian security official claimed black box data from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane revealed the jet crashed due to a "massive explosive decompression" after being hit by shrapnel from a missile.

Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine's Security Council, said the information came from experts analysing the flight recorders from MH17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine killing all 298 people on board.


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